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 don’t know who has the edge, but Brandon’s little helpers have been very busy the last few days. Our neighborhood has been flooded with anti-Vallas (not pro-BJ) stickers and flyers taped to street signs and lamp poles.
The teachers union antics could influence some on the edges. However, it is stunning to see such an extreme, ethically corrupt candidate as Johnson be this close. He is so radical that he admitted that he did not help minority kids reach their potential, as a matter of his core principles. Also, how could he expect residents to pay their bills when he would not it himself, and made a mockery of paying your fair share? It used to be that Chicagoans had a basic sense of right and wrong, and you would sense that in the neighborhoods or while… Read more »