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.
Ralphie Martire, who never met a tax he didn’t love like one of his own children, is back with his usual pernicious and mendacious defense of profligate government spending. He figures he can rally the Illinois AWFLs once again to keep his leftist benefactors in power. The rest of us have had quite enough of JB the Hutt and his fellow reprobates.
You think so? I’m not so confident. Pretty sure JB would be the odds on favorite to win again.
Ok…fair enough…except for people like you, Mr./Mrs./Ms. State Retiree. The rest of us stuck with the bill are fairly fed up with JB the Hutt’s consistent mismanagement of Madiganistan.
Matire and pernicious in the same sentence sounds about right. The tax man speaketh.