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.
Suburban Cook county should be allowed to become part of neighboring counties. Cook county goes little for suburbs, except tax them to support Chicago.
This is another reason why I think Trump or any Republican candidate for president in the future should concentrate their efforts in Chicago and Cook county to try to turn Illinois into a swing state. Geographically (but not populous) most of the state is Red but in Cook the population is more/mostly Blue. All it would take is to turn a few hundred thousand people from blue to red or at least purple to make the state at the very least to a swing one. Look at AZ. It was red for a while until many moved there and took… Read more »
Brandon Johnson is doing a fabulous job convincing a lot of Chicago that pulling the blue handle has consequences. Whatever Democrats (still alive) by November should have strong second thoughts.