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.
If it’s not a government run store, Democrat Communists want you out of business!
This entire neighborhood should be enraged at the NON-UNIFORM assessment treatment evidently received by property 1431 N. Astor St. Chicago PIN 17-03-103-007-0000 during property tax years 2012 through 2016. Every penny given by Cook County to the owner of this property (yes, Governor Pritzker) had to be paid (EXTRA) to Cook County by other Cook County property taxpayers. Toilets are a red herring. The real issue: was 1431 N. Astor improperly awarded a COE allowing 3 years retroactive tax rebates (at other Chicago taxpayers’ expense)? People want that “somebody should do something about this”? Yeah that’s right…YOU should do something… Read more »
When JB was caught with his hands in the toilet he paid the money he owed probably less fines. Did the taxpayer get a refund? I don’t think so.
So you elect a socialist alderman and then you complain when socialist policies bite you in the ass. It was ok when everyone else had to pay high taxes but now it’s not ok. This wake up call is exactly what the city needs.
It makes little sense that those who want low taxes also want everything for free. Taxes are indeed way too high and going ridiculously higher by the minute, in large part to pay for all the free shit loafers and government grifters. Are high taxes only to be paid by whitey and billionaires? I have a bridge to sell you!