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.
You know, you really need to have a knowledgeable, competent Civil Engineer reporting and commenting on subjects like this one. I am, so here’s the deal. The correct name of this project is the Tunnel and Reservoir Project, or TARP for short. Let me emphasize the “Reservoir” part of TARP and the “and” part of TARP. TARP is both a flood control project and a pollution control project. The flood control part deals with the volume of surface water runoff that is generated from rainstorms. There’s a lot of impervious surfaces we have in urban areas so most of the… Read more »
The deep tunnel project has been a failure. It was never capable to receive 100% of the storm water. The lake, rivers, and Illinois canal was supposed to be a backup, but the EPA stepped in and halted the release of mixed sewer/storm-water into those waterways.