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.
I’m not going to listen to the podcast but for every buyer there is a seller. The residents fleeing the city, in my experience, tend to be renters. Not uniform, of course, but certainly happening. The other big story not talked about here is suburbanites avoiding the city. I routintely ask my friends, neighbors and family if they’ve been to Chicago in the last year and all of them tell me no, and none of them have any intention of going to Chicago, and quite a few of them cite the violence and crime as the primary reason. There’s a… Read more »
And, just because there is a buyer, that doesn’t mean someone is living there. Blackrock may have bought it and it sits empty. People are avoiding Illinois like the plague
Yea OK Lori, I see you peeking from behind the dumpster!