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.
this pretty good Crains/ Hinz article states that Brandon’s staying silent on Chicago Cop/Fire bill dropping Tier II. But his deputy chief of staff Pacione-Zayas is one of the sponsors of bill?? Unbelievable!!
“Chicago’s new mayor, Brandon Johnson, so far has declined to comment on the firefighter bills. Complicating the matter is that his new first deputy chief of staff, state Sen. Cristina Pacione-Zayas, is one of the Senate sponsors of the bill.”
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/firefighter-cook-county-pension-bills-springfield
It’s truly stunning how overturning Tier II legislation is instantly #1 priority for machine/ “new machine” now that they are 100% in control. With ZERO consideration for how equity hustled chump taxpayers are going to have to pay for all the newly minted guaranteed zero risk $multi-millionaires$…..and yet all these pols keep peddling the same equity crap. UNBELIEVABLE!!!!
Government always makes the worst possible decision and lets the taxpayers pay out the A$$. The boat is sinking, and government is drilling holes in the bottom.
Democrats throw budget bricks to debt-drowning Chicago