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.
Mr Vallas is spouting nonsense. He knows very well that there is no chance of developing Charter schools here over CTU opposition. The only effective political party north of I80 and east of I39 is the Democratic Party. The Republicans are comatose if not dead. Within the Party, the most powerful organized unified group is the CTU. The General Assembly did not pass Gov Pritzker’s agenda this year. It passed Stacy Davis Gates’s agenda. With the eclipse of Madigan and the unsurprising ineptitude of Pritzker and Lightfoot, SDG is the most powerful visible political leader in the city and state… Read more »
The pendulum is swinging back. And hard.