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 big question is whether dems will embrace or distance themselves from Brandon Johnson’s radicalism. So far, it appears they are comfortable with it.
Most centrist Democrats have seamlessly adopted increasingly nutty progressive ideology without any qualms. Most seem to embrace the next current thing, whatever that may be. I’ve known this for years, but when I showed up a BBQ last year with old friends I hadn’t seen since before covid, it really hit home. The AWFL moms and their soyboy husbands sat around the table drinking wine and talking politics, something I’ve never done with these people before. They were ripping on their own parents for being ‘out of touch’ with gender ideology because they have in-laws that identify as non-binary. The… Read more »