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.
To many chiefs and not enough Indians……plus can’t keep their hands out of the cookie jar
Q: Why did Johnson and Lightfoot fail so badly? A: Because both are inept socialists without any business acumen elected on their skin tone.
The answer is simple it’s hard to govern Chicago because government is filled with
The “usual gang of idiots “ and the leader
Is Zippy.
Politicians on a state or national level tend to be driven by varying amounts of personal hype, their own political leanings and greed with maybe on average 10-20% public good or general altruism as ther motivators. The “usual gang of idiots” characterization comes into play when your goals and theirs are out of synch, so you need to take a step back periodically and realize that they also serve a larger set of people who have all kinds of personal goals and values different from yours. Another voter at large may see any such set of politicians as their heroes.