During her final weeks in office, Lightfoot said the city was "completely tapped out" and 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.
Easy to virtue-signal. Hard to accommodate reality.
Soooo! This is what you see at the bottom of the barrel.
They haven’t become border hawks. They just want more money.
It’s too late, the damage is done. It’s all so sad and pathetic.
Funny how the financial reality of virtue signaling hits home, then they do a 180. At any rate, Biden is doing nothing. Obama is in his 3rd term, calling the shots. Biden just drools and eats oatmeal. And the Durham report shows Obama is the Big Guy, not Biden.