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.
‘Empowerment’ is a word that oozed into political discourse during the Clinton Administration. The term is designed to show both the alleged caring of a politician and the affirmation of the recipient of the attention afforded by the politician, usually in the form of access to taxpayer dollars. This access takes the form of outright grants or plum pensioned positions. I find the term to be facetiously pretentious and to be avoided. Anyway…another overuse of racial canard aside, it would be a miracle if the City Council was actually signaling a change in direction from the Friends and Family hiring… Read more »
Acre is pissed because he just missed a good paycheck with bebefits for lttle to no work. Chicago, what a city!
It tends to happen to DEI hires.