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.
It’s not inequitable to demand zero shootings in downtown area given the high density, high value real estate, and tourism. The downtown shootings aren’t downtown residents shooting each other. It’s crime coming into the neighborhood from elsewhere. Equity means keeping crime contained to certain neighborhoods and then using strategies minimize it. Equity is not saying “other places are worse so too bad”.