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.
If Debbie Dingle and Rashida are complaining it’s probably a good thing. They want Stellantis to honor their commitment, when doing so would put every Stellantis employee and plant at risk. Nobody wants their garbage EVs, but these yo-yos want them to produce them anyways. This is an example of a toxic mix of an exceedingly bad company and progressive politicians wasting billions.
Given that Dodge, Chrysler, Jeep, and even Stellantis itself are on shaky ground, I’d highly doubt Belvidire Assembly ever gets re-opened. EV sales are falling and car makers who are able to have pivoted to hybrid drivetrains. Stellantis has botched the launch of the new generation Dodge Charger (the coupe will be all EV, the sedan should be ICE, but with a straight 6 engine, and not the chance of a V8 which made the old models special). It was to be a 2024, now a 2025 (maybe), perhaps a 2026. Besides that you can get a Hornet, which is… Read more »