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.
Where were the Einstein’s at Crain’s and the other mindless journals in Chicago, when Richie Daley sacked the funding for those pensions to pay for nice little median strips with trees instead of paying the pension fund money that he was obligated to do under law and common decency? Same question for Rahm…
Jeff Skilling went to prison for what he did to the Enron employees retirement fund; Isn’t that where Richie and Rahm belong as well?
Just a rhetorical question mind you…