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.
Suddenly the woman who thought hiring the “Covid Cowboy” was a good idea becomes a wise Elder Statesperson.
Underestimated her enemies? More like overestimated her abilities.
You may have underestimated your enemies , but that does not change the fact that you really sucked at your job.
General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna underestimated the Texans response
To the Alamo, how did that turn out for
Mexico. History teaches if we want to learn.
Lightfoot was a clown of a leader. That was her downfall.
Lightfoot misunderstood her mayoral duties to actual govern, thought her virtue-signaling attributes, being a black lesbian progressive democrat, were sufficient to garner praise and dutiful obedience without doing the actual hard work of effectively governing an unruly city.
Johnson is making same mistakes, only compounding them.
WELL SAID