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.
To think we could have had Paul Vallas’ clear headed leadership in Chicago. Instead we got DEI hire Mayor Cliff Notes. This could have been balanced with sober State government, but we have the most gerrymandered legislature and one of the worst governors in America, trust fund baby JB the Hutt.
Illinois is utterly lost.
Both NY and Ca have much larger populations than Illinois.
Those other states have the same problem as Illinois. Public sector union greed is destroying the quality of life for the normal working person.