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.
One would think AFSME, SEIU, CTU, etc would be all over trying to organize/unionize all the new employees (contact tracers, violence interrupters, etc) resulting from all the ARPA fed $bucks$ being doled out to “community groups”? or at least see they are getting prevailing wage?….oops, that would mean all those folks would have to be getting an actual payroll check with deductions and not treated as independent (1099) contractors. Does anybody @ State of Ill, CC, City of Chicago check?