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 beginning to believe this has nothing to do with Lightfoot’s or Pritzker re-election bid because they know it may be over but how to just screw over every taxpayer in this hideous state
Free gas! Free bikes! Free transit cars! Free cars – (if liberated from rightful driver)!
Lightfoot knows she’s got a tough re-election campaign, and Biden still hasn’t rewarded Lightfoot with that promised Fed judgeship. Karma is a bitch. Lightfoot needs to be either re-elected, or she’ll be as unemployable as Rahm Emmanuel once was.
Prediction: a scandal will be uncovered. Mail deliverers and Chicago teachers will be involved in it.
1) Who is monitoring the # of cards issued? 2) What is the street value of a card? Likely discounted because who wants to ride the bus? 3) How are cards protected against forgery? 4) What’s the cost of the equipment needed to use the cards for transport? 5) How many social workers will be hired to distribute the cards? 6) When do cards expire? 7) Will transit fees for others be increased to generate revenue to pay drivers etc.? 8) How many card-carriers can ride the bus all day and how can their restful sleep be assured? 9) What… Read more »
Let’s see … 50,000 physical prepaid cards x $150 = $7.5 million. Where’s the other $5 million going? Administration fees? Graft? Campaign money contributions?
Willie Wilson spent his own money; Lightfoot is spending Chicagoan’s money.
Big difference.
Looney Toons Lightfoot. What a joke.
Everything with BD Lori is a lottery now. She must believe her constituents like to gamble or something.
It’s progressive racial equity politics by lottery? what a pathetic uncle-tom/ down-on-the-farm joke.. but no differnt than all the other city/ state free-stuff equity give-aways
And zero cost estimates on what it will cost to administer as usual
Lightfoot Gas Tax Cut Is Blocked — Instead She Is Spending Your Tax Dollars On A Welfare Giveaway of Free Gas Cards (IN CONTRAST TO WILLIE WILSON, WHO GAVE AWAY HIS OWN MONEY) — She Is Also Offering Free CTA Cards — But No One Wants To Come Near CTA’s Crime Ridden/Drug Infested/Filthy Shit And Piss Stinking Trains, Stations, And Buses