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.
Rauner’s name appears seven times. I’m kinda rooting for AFSCME 31 this bargaining cycle. Curious to see what demands they’ll make now the WRA passed. Ask for the moon! After all, JB fully supported the amendment. I am impressed the AFSCME seems to understand finances better than Illinois Democrats. Props to them for giving credit to massive inflation and free federal money instead of JB: After the budget crisis was over, there was optimism about the health of the state budget–until the COVID-19 pandemic emerged in early 2020. States governments across the United States were on shaky fiscal ground as… Read more »
After CTU, AFSCME is the most detrimental and cancerous organization in Illinois. Bust this union now.