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.
I for one am getting sick and tired or politician, government workers, and police officers being deemed some special class of people who deserve more protection than private sector citizens. Note how when you suggest they should be held to a legal higher standard of conduct they go screaming to their unions. This is the same logic they apply to hate crimes or whatever and it is all nonsense. Police do not deserve special protection. They are compensated for the risk ensued by their outrageous salaries and benefits. This is just Rauner again misreading the public, not realizing real conservatives… Read more »
He came out with that because he has nothing else. He will be smashed at the election cos he has nothing to show for his entire time in office. he even opposed Trump for pete’s sake