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.
The answer is “NEVER!”
Notice how there are 5 phases? And even if coronavirus goes away, disappears from the earth, we’ll always still be in Phase 5, ready to go back to Phase 4 or worse, at a moments notice, for a bad flu season, or the sniffles, or a particularly communicable STD….
Coronavirus put us in an entirely new paradigm, where we are always in a Phase 5 world…
You are spot on. Wait until more tiers/steps/half phases/quarter phases and sub regions and sub sub regions are added… It’s a game and a majority of everyone in IL fell for it.
I cannot believe what I see when I get back to the city (and quickly GTFO ASAP). There’s no one ever going to question anything – in the city. There is no hope in going back to “normal”.