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.
Transit is dead. Long live transit. After losing riders for years slowly, America’s transit agencies were essentially destroyed by the Democrats’ authoritarian overreaction to the China Virus. Zoom meetings have replaced in-office work. Despite some companies making overtures to getting their people back in the office, ridership is a fraction of what it had been in the last ‘good’ year of 2019. Any other business faced with the market turning its back on their product would retreat and retrench. Would Union Pacific run empty trains as a matter of course? Nope. The railroads that have to earn their pay cut… Read more »
The day of reckoning will come with a financial collapse.
Get in line behind the public pensioners. What? You say poor folks need public transportation? Gosh, that’s a real shame.
If ridership is down and not coming back then it sounds like service cuts are in order.
CTA Has Lost Half Its Riders For Good — Now CTA — Like Other Failed, Obsolete US Transit Agencies — Wants A Giant Taxpayer Bailout