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.
Who approved the system that draws water from the river to be used in the AC? I would imagine that the system used would require multiple stamps of approval from inspectors from the city, the county, the state and the EPA before being installed. If those agencies approved the design and installation why is the hotel being blamed? I imagine it’s because the name Trump is on the building. If anyone is to blame it falls clearly on those agencies that approved the system an allowed it to be built.
Seems to me that Trump Tower would have a claim against it’s architect.
Glad to know the Attorney General has his priorities straight—fish first, people later. Maybe once he’s done saving the fish, he can get around to addressing the little issue of human lives being lost in Chicago. Democratic priorities, right?
In Chicago, one of the most heavily regulated cities in the country; in Illinois, one of the most insanely regulated states in the nation, a large building gets built and a hotel and condominium operates within. The operations generate millions of dollars in property taxes, sales taxes, amusement taxes, water discharge fees and more to Cook County, the City of Chicago and the State of Illinois. For seven years, little notice is paid to the structure, except for a few afficionados who lament the loss of the stubby, shabby Sun-Times building. Chicago Democrats treasure bathe themselves in the cash they… Read more »
Great piece Railroader. They should go after the nuclear power plants next, dead cities don’t need electricity.