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.
Plans I have known: Five-Year Plan, soviet style. Liz Warren’s weekly plans. New Year’s resolutions (annual). Plan A; Plan B. Best-laid plan. Marshall Plan. Diet plan. Workout plan. Family plan. “gang aft agley” says me.
Working on a plan is woke speak for doing nothing. For decades CTA could run busses and trains on a schedule and you need not be worried about being brutally murdered! What changed? Hmmmmm…….
“working on” and a “plan” and “fix” it. It would be interested to know what actual people are doing the work, what deadlines have been imposed and what responsibility they’ll have if they don’t fix anything. Also interesting to know what consultants have been hired for how much and to whom they are related. I am guessing this is like the plan to fix everything else that isn’t working and that any solution will involve a lot of pay-raises and union concessions.