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.
Ha! Blaming online for the closure of stores in Springfield. Springfield, like the rest of Illinois outside of handful of pockets, is kind of a dump. There’s no growth, incomes are flat, population is declining. Some smaller metro areas in the country can’t build fast enough to accommodate the growth. Here, not so much.