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.
Start with buses to the border.
The ‘housing crisis’ is everywhere. In every city, county and state in the union. Why is that? The federal reserve of course! ZIRP (Zero Interest Rate Policy aka low interest rates) combined with “Money Printer Go Brrr” floods the financial system with liquidity, which flows to every corner and facet of your life. Yesterday it was $NVDA. Today it’s housing. Tomorrow it’s cocoa! Have you seen how cocoa futures went from $4,000 to $10,000 in THREE MONTHS!!?!?!? I appreciate Paul Vallas’s ideas but that’s all window dressing. A price crash of epic proportions is coming, soon, very soon, and it’s… Read more »