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.
I certainly like the idea of “bailing out” COVID impacted individuals, based on some level of identifiable – as in quantifiable – hardship, a lot more than I support shoveling national debt willy-nilly into individual state government’s sweaty palms. Neither my wife or I have lost our jobs. We didn’t “need” the last stimulus check we received to fix a financial problem caused by COVID, and don’t need another one. Pre-COVID eligible beneficiaries of public aid programs haven’t seen their Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, SNAP or financial support income reduced. COVID hasn’t increased inflation, thereby reducing the buying-power of assistance… Read more »
States probably can but —DO they want to is another thing.
They want to raise taxes and wring their citizens dry.
Wll at least that is Lard Boy’s answer to everything.