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.
Nothing like a new spending program while we can’t pay for our existing programs in true Illinois style.
The proposed rules for the program are listed at the beginning of this issue of the Illinois Register:
https://www.ilsos.gov/departments/index/register/volume48/register_volume48_48.pdf
There is a really strange aspect to this program that is not mentioned in the story. Individuals who qualify for the program CANNOT apply for it, and in fact have no say in the process. The debts to be forgiven are selected entirely by a non-profit “medical debt coordinator”, who handles all the negotiation involved in purchasing and liquidating the debts, then informs the patients after the fact that their medical debt has been erased. Why would it be set up that way, rather than having an open application process on a first-come, first-served basis?
Because the cronies can get paid as employees of the “non-profit” that basically will exist to bilk money out of tax payers to line their pockets.
Also a good way to circumvent paying off the smaller debts first and pay the largest ones, thus insuring a backlog of cases to justify keeping the grift going for eternity.