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.
I’m thinking that “the historical divergence between Illinois and U.S. job growth will widen” is a very safe bet.
The 13 page May 27, 2020 report titled, “Economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic:
State perspectives” from the IGPA Economic and Fiscal Health Impact Group, and a news release about the report, is on the IGPA COVID-19 Pandemic Task Force website.
https://files.elfsight.com/storage/e79b15a2-1214-4a1e-929f-be90aa84b052/81515d8e-1458-4cad-a659-86d170d20404.pdf
https://emails.uofi.uillinois.edu/newsletter/9851249.html
https://igpa.uillinois.edu/page/igpa-covid-19-pandemic-task-force#section-0
But the Illinois General Assembly passed a “balanced” “budget” per the state constitutional requirement.
Which is the financial equivalent of used toilet paper in a disconnected toilet.
It’s filled with crap and you can’t flush it down the toilet, which is where it should go.
Unless YOU had your toilets disconnected and don’t know how to reconnect them. HaHa. The irony!