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.
Twitter isn’t real life. It will be interesting to see if the “groundswell” of social media support for Brandon Johnson translates to him reaching the runoff.
But it doesn’t look like the young people are voting again, and that’s bad news for uber-progressive candidates. The question I have is will the Hispanic community show up for Chuy because, as of now, it doesn’t look like that’s the case.
as a lifelong Chicagoan, nothing I don’t already know. Low-income minority folks don’t vote, but all the candidates & news medias focus is almost 100% about low-income minority folks? That’s why I call em ‘stage prop people’.