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.
A very simple and equitable policy would be for any given community to insist upon some percentage of non-dilutive carried interest in the startup venture.
Ventures like this and Gotion for another example may strip-mine local resources (water, electrical usage, pollutable land, tax dollars via TIF).
Without any quantifiable upside in a success scenario, why should locals bear all the downside risk?