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.
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Thank God. That’s the Green New Deal for IL, and an attempt to entirely remake the economy around renewable energy, social justice goals, etc.
Good bye petrochemical fertilizers, good bye factory farming, good bye exurban and rural communities that rely heavily on cars and trucks, good bye low density housing and the single family home. Soon enough only the rich or politically connected will be able to afford to eat chicken, drive a car and live in a house. For ‘social justice’ and ‘environmental reasons’ of course. I say this only in jest of course but that’s literally where the ‘base’ of the environmental movement is right now. They want to ban out gas power tools for goodness sakes, and plastic forks, and single… Read more »