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.
Another Pritzker gem. In the name of equity, let’s redistribute mismanaged finances to others like METRA.
Well, the leftists sure do have a lot of agenda items competing for the same pot of money don’t they? Service cuts are just what we need! Learn to live within a budget, or we’ll do things the hard way. Of course, the author had to throw in climate change and carbon footprint, because, well you know. Sorry, but public transportation entities need a hard dose of reality.
CPS needs billions more, the universities need more money despite a lack of students, all pension debts are rising and Pritzker is teasing about a third term. Raheem and Daley saw the handwriting on the wall and bailed.
Kate Lowe, please read this. From 2016 through 2019, Chicago’s thug element ran wild. Useless political animals like Kim Foxx, Lori Lightfoot, Tim Walz, and JB the Hutt did nothing to stop the degradation of civilization that the unfettered thug element caused, all while Kamala Harris raised funds to keep the thugs on the street creating mayhem. With conditions rapidly melting down in the Loop, Companies left in droves along with their employees, with some fleeing Illinois entirely in favor of a Red State address. This had the side effect of the closure of most of the businesses dependent on… Read more »