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.
Not really, JB the Hutt. Illinois’ problems were created by your own incompetence. Illinois lacks the offshore trust funds that you have, yet you manage the state as if it does. The entire country suffered and concintues to suffer the effect of Bidenflation. While the Autopen-in-Chief signed legislation that exacerbated the damage, you sat there and applauded. Now that there is an actual President running the country, and not the deep state bureaucrats that you overenthusiastically rally for, the medicine to fix the mess is harsh by necessity. JB the Hutt’s party polls at around 19% in some polls, yet… Read more »
IL claims every year to have a balanced budget, as legally required. Yet, every year somehow IL debt increases. And, no, it’s not Trump and it’s not every state. SC projects a $1.8 billion surplus for 2025-2026 according to its governor. Pro business and many new businesses moving there.
Things are just financially fine here in Florida. That state being host to an increasing number of Illinois expatriates. Hopefully, they leave their idiotic voting history behind in the Land of the Hutt, lest that state also be criminally mismanaged as is the Hutt’s Illinois.