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.
Good articles at http://www.illinoisrisingaction.org.. Video on JB pops up.
Quit paying those jokers $38.52 an hour as the payroll database shows, and the money will stretch a lot further.
Most all cops, teachers and firemen get a pension larger than that and they do not work.
More cops on a pension than on the job.
More Firemen on a pension than on the job.
More teachers on a pension than on the job.
More poor honest hard working taxpayers on the job than all of the above. Always has been and always will be.
Or, simply allow the repaving & pothole filling to be competively bid to private contractors. The way city replaces sidewalks is beyond rediculous if you happen to live in city and have observed.