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.
No info in articale or on linked state web site on how this workshare/ “free stuff” program is funded? Is workshare funded with fed biden $bucks$? Or out of ides vasly underfunded unemployment fund that Illinois tax payers are on the hook for paying back to feds from the borrowed $8 billion?
I’ve read most other states are using or proposing to use fed covid/ biden $bucks$ to replenish state unemployment funds thereby offering an indirect tax break to businesses and ultimately consumers. But not in bankrupt/ debt don’t matter Illinois, using fed covid funds to expand the free stuff give aways.