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 sure shopping malls had nothing to do with the decline. Now most malls are disappearing too! Hmmm…wonder why?
Shoplifting is legal if you’re not too greedy and you don’t have to pay rent if you don’t want to. Chicago sounds like paradise to me.
3 chicken joints, two nail salons, a wig shop and a fish store dont make a vibrant neighborhood.
But maybe the 4 or 5 pawn shops do?
Disinvestment? No. Businesses have been driven out by bad behavior, lack of responsibility, and political ineptitude.
Typical blame game – “we’re victims; it’s not our fault.”