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.
None of this would have made Carlos Acosta any good at his job. Maybe stop with the preferential hiring practices in government agencies.
That goes for Secretary of State’s offices too.
Yes, Jabba, let’s just throw more $ at the problem, rather than try to reform the agency and improve its dismal record of letting kids die on its watch.
Yup-zero reporting on whats currently being spent or what other states spend. Googled, and dcfs current annual budget is approx $1.2 bil for 17,481 kids in custody. Jb will raise to $1.4 bil. And assume that doesn’t cover pensions & opebs