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.
I sound like a broken record here. But I’ve been saying this since this election cycle started. 700,000 new Democrat voters showed up in 2018 to vote for JB. He got over 2,000,000 votes where no other IL Democrat has received more than 2,000,000 votes in modern history. It was like this for D candidates up and down the ballot, but he was at the top of the ticket. We have to dig back deep 50 years, to 1972, when the Gov was elected during presidential elections (instead of midterms) to find the last Democrat to receive 2,000,000 votes, and… Read more »
Yes. Trumpeter did an excellent job mobilizing Democrats in Illinois.
Define ‘mobilize’.