Totaling the unsustainable tax increases and windfall revenue during Pritzker Administration – Wirepoints
May 26, 2026
23 Comments
With $162 billion more from taxpayers, couldn’t you deliver a few bond upgrades, too
-- Connecting the dots between our economy, government and business --
Audio and summary 
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 I were a criminals I would feel much safer under JB.
Hobbesville is a more apt description.
Unfortunately, most foreign born residents of Chicago have no idea that Pritzkerville is a take on a 90 year old slur against Hoovervilles, a slur against Pres Hoover during the early days of the Great Depression.
He’d be better off saying that parts of Chicago are a third world slum not too different than the slums the residents left.
It’s more likely that he was referencing Pottersville from It’s a Wonderful life. Without George Bailey, Bedford Falls becomes Pottersville. As in, if we don’t elect Bailey, we will be stuck with Pritzkerville. Voters and politicians prefer simple.
Whichever version you believe he was referencing, I think it will be missed by most Chicago voters.
You might be right. Which makes it arguably an even more obscure reference. Except it doesn’t make a lot of sense because JBPutin isn’t lending money to everyone in town at usury rates.