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.
These bills are ‘Shovel Ready Jobs’ II. Obama got his green agenda through back in the day. What did taxpayers get for their money? Was it the 5 million jobs that Obama so articulately promised? Nope. A little over 5,000 jobs, most of them temporary, green failures like Solyndra, and imprudent states like Illinois having their profligate spending bailed out by federal taxpayers. Clinton touted his ‘Invest in America’ spending plan, but that got derailed by the 1994 election, after which ‘the era of big government (was) over’. Democrat incompetence just running the basic government and economy for the past… Read more »