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.
“Gerrymandering creates strangely shaped districts and uncompetitive elections, while at the same time shutting out the opposing party. Under our current map created by Illinois Democrats in 2011, Democrats won 60% of the House seats and 68% of the Senate seats in 2012, with only 52% of the vote in the House elections and 54% of the vote in Senate elections.”
Progressives argue for fair maps all the time, except, I doubt that’s what they really want. Because it would remove their supermajority in many states.