Totaling the unsustainable tax increases and windfall revenue during Pritzker Administration – Wirepoints
May 26, 2026
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With $162 billion more from taxpayers, couldn’t you deliver a few bond upgrades, too
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A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
Chicago’s priorities have always been out of whack. Now even more than ever. Gotta keep money hidden for those brown envelopes instead of spending it on safety and law enforcemnt. There are slush find in almost every line item in the budget and that’s over and above the TIFF scraping that occurs every year.