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.
Numbers can be easily manipulated to show a positive result. Joe dropped gas .05 cents from $4 and crowed about lowering gas prices. IL showed an increase in residents of 200 K per Visual Capitalist, without saying probably one half to three quarters recently crossed the southern border and can’t speak English. So if U of I picks up say, 1K students from a historically low enrollment , they too can toot their horn about an increase. A little less sh—-y is still pretty sh—-y.