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.
Companies used to move from the city to the suburbs, and sometimes from the suburbs back into the city. But these days, they just leave Illinois altogether. Meanwhile, the middle class flees all of this. At the same time, the HR wine aunt cat lady takes her $120k a year job downtown, and the illegal immigrant sells ‘chalk-o-lot’ on downtown corners and suburban intersections for $5 a bar, and our politicians say “THIS IS PROSPEROUS PROGRESSIVE UTOPIA”