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.
Pritzker never had a real job in his life. An heir to the Hyatt Hotels world wide fortunes, even his own family would not hire him. Why should we? His “leadership” continues to see Illinois population decreases, corporate avoidance of Illinois due to tax concerns, continued allowing the public pension debt to grow. Illinois congressional representatives have fallen from 27 in 1959 to currently 17. And he wants to be VP? He’s just another tax and spend Democrat.
Yet, he’s running the state exactly how progressives want the state run. Progressive leadership is a complete disaster by every measurable and objective standard. But here’s the rub: progressives don’t use YOUR metrics to evaluate leadership. Population loss, businesses leaving, pension debt…none of these are important to the progressive. They evaluate leadership by other measures: abortion access, high and not low tax rates, how few criminals are put in jail, how much crime criminals can commit, how much they can pander to the bottom %’age of of voters. This is what matters to them, nothing else matters. You have to… Read more »
Governor TUBBY when promoted to VP please at least rain money on your BROKE STATE THAT YOUAN THE DEMOCRATS HAVE DESTROYED
I would rather vote for a garden slug than vote for Jay Robert Pritzker.
What to know: Don’t. Trust me. Just don’t.