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.
Great summary that is identical to how thousands of people feel. I just came back from a drive through Tennessee, Kentucky and Indiana.. All looked like paradise compared to what I saw when I came into Chicago from the south. The Bishop Ford is a disaster. Litter all over. Car parts on the shoulder of the road in a dozen places. Graffiti on every overpass. Drove up South Lake Shore Drive and happened to be listening to WBBM about the spate of shootings on the expressways and LSD. Cars going 70 or 80 miles an hour with no cops in… Read more »
Chicago has been a slow motion train wreck for some time (disrespect for law and order, identity politics, quickly declining public education system) but the China virus con accelerated the decline. It’s true crises accelerate trends already in motion.