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.
Maybe Vallas deserved to lose for being so dumb to give $700K to Mr Scrabble name.
In the ‘hood that’s called “walkin’ around money”. Very common in Chicago minority neighborhoods for decades. Harold Washington had a number of buddies who were notorious for asking for it all the way back to the 1980’s. So the concept isn’t a shock. What is mind boggling is that Vallas had no one who was familiar with the concept, and furthermore no way to monitor it. It is definitely an indication that his campaign was not staffed properly.
Makes me wonder whether consultant intentionally aided Johnson.