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.
the vast majority of construction trades union workers don’t live in the city.
It will be interesting to see how Pritzker deals with this when the time comes for JB to endorse Vallas and his unions, or Johnson and his, or to explain why he’s not endorsing either of them. If the electricians, plumbers and operating engineers are endorsing Vallas, then it seems likely that members of the carpenters, ironworkers, teamsters, masons & etc trades would be leaning in the same direction. I can’t see JB tucking himself into a Speedo and swimming upstream against that Dem-faithful current. Problem for JB is that Johnson’s progressive-n-woke public-employee unions have funneled millions to Pritzker, and… Read more »
This is easy. Unions that actually work for a living support Vallas: Construction trades, FOP, IFF, Streets and San, etc. Unions that don’t work for a living, are made up of lazy parasitic vermin and want more socialist freebies support Johnson: CTU, IFT, AFSCME, SEIU.
Pritzker definitely falls into the parasitical vermin class
Maybe the trade unions finally realize that their interests are diametrically opposed to public unions. All unions are not created equal after all.