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.
Stupidity. Our state is hemorrhaging college students, without our crappy, low quality, unselective schools (NIU & SIU don’t even require the ACT or SAT anymore!). Our flagship is nearly a third foreigners, crowding out the natives, and is arguably one of the dumpiest Big 10 schools. His solution is throw money , not even at the colleges, but the high school students who don’t even want to attend our state schools. talk about flushing money down the toilet.