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.
Hmm, could this be expanded to include illegals?
The question is not who is going to get their debt paid off but who is going to get the money.
“If approved by the governor, the five-year pilot program will work with a nonprofit to use $10 million to pay off up to $1 billion in medical debt.”
The way this reads, a politically affiliated nonprofit gets a cut, and will probably negotiate down the debts of JB friends and contributors with medical debt.
I’m very sympathetic for people burdened with medical debt. Not so much for a program that has the earmarks of another politically tilted Illinois payoff.
“It’s estimated nearly two million Illinoisans have more than $4 billion in medical debt.”
$1B out of $4B may get relief. So who do you suspect will win this new political lottery prize?
It’s not even a lottery as the people with children will get pushed to the front of the line.
I hope I’m wrong, and that if implemented the program is properly and effectively administered.