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.
Stated another way, about 90% of the people that voted for the Mayor finally realize they made a huge mistake.
Probably more like 98%. That “6%” is probably his family and people that are likely not even alive.
And look at how long has it taken Detroit to struggle back, since Kwame.
Trump in the waning days of his presidency, after J6, commuted the sentence for Kwame, interestingly enough
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/detroit-city/2021/01/20/trump-pardons-ex-detroit-mayor-kwame-kilpatrick/3955404001/
President Donald Trump commuted the prison sentence of former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick early Wednesday in one of his final acts, 16 years before Kilpatrick was to be released from prison for running a racketeering enterprise out of City Hall.