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.
“Will Johnson learn from his budget fiasco?” Not a chance. By your early 20’s your values, reasoning and thought patterns are set, barring a significant emotional experience like the death of a loved one. Johnson will keep blundering his way through life whether he is the Mayor of Chicago or not.
Johnson’s Christmas present is no different from the big, raggedy box of doo-doo he has handed out on a daily basis since installed by his CTU masters.