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 reminds me of the Edgar Ramp. We will pay later to make up what we can’t pay today that sounds good but never happens
This is an important article, though incredibly dry. It is a road map in urban decline. Borrow tons of money based on past revenues as a third of the population leaves. Come up with get-rich-quick ideas like hotels and casinos as your crime problems multiply. Then as debts reach the breaking point, push a reckoning off into the future by suing the institutions who loaned the money to re-finance everything.
Right, Eugene, that’s why we follow it quite closely and link to all articles on it. (That, and it’s where I was born.) It’s a microcosm road map of urban decline.
This is an important article, though incredibly dry
This is the news equivalent of eating your spinach before you can have dessert.
Not every news story is gonna be all about hookers and cocaine (thank goodness for Hunter Biden).