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.
When Old Joe was a kid the library was an inexpensive city service staffed by a couple old ladies that would shush me if ai was too loud.
Now they are expensive woke homeless shelters with reduced hours.
White Oak Library District may have done the same for the 5th time there was a referendum to raise property taxes to increase the district’s hours, it failed 4 times before by large margins and miraculously it passed this year by almost a thousand votes, hum .