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.
Maybe the state could tax the verdict windfalls from some of these national cases that lawyers have specifically chosen to have litigated in a Madison County, etc
Madison County?
SW IL has long been a bastion for anti- business lawsuits. The tobacco companies took it on the chin down there decades ago. I once received a notice from the Benton, IL courthouse notifying me that I was involved in a class action lawsuit because I received a mailed flyer from a used car dealer that had somewhat shady business practices. All the plaintiffs such as myself received 1K each in the settlement.