Totaling the unsustainable tax increases and windfall revenue during Pritzker Administration – Wirepoints
May 25, 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 and other Democratic politicians in Illinois created this problem by forcing everyone to stay at home during covid, even though many of those people were not going to be affected by covid. So people adapted and found they no longer had a need to travel into Chicago tanking public transportation ridership heading into and within Chicago. Now Illinois politicians the problem they created….oh yeah it’s all Trump’s fault.
The people that run these things are truly idiots. The mismanagement of money is beyond comprehension . I often wonder how miserable does living in Illinois have to get before voters might try voting differently.
Oh well! It is way past time for the CTA , the CTU, the City administration, etc, etc to sober up and stop getting soused on the tax payers dime.
Now that’s funny!
No need to worry. Additional funding will eventually come through with only some small sacrificial cuts. An amazon delivery tax along with some additional taxes on Uber are just around the corner.
That’s funny!
PPF is our resident “dreamer up of more and more things to tax”. He’s quite inventive, has a tax solution for every potential problem.
That’s true. I do offer up solutions instead of just whining and complaining.
Significantly cutting public transportation around Chicago or higher and new taxes. I wonder what will happen? lol
Less ridership . Less vehicles needed meaning LESS EMPLOYEES NEEDED . No on is guarantee a job for life .
Especially the board of directors
How will we ever survive without empty buses cruising around all day, a useless train line being built next to an existing one and Dorval Carter level salaries for the CTA, RTA and Metra fat cats?
Sounds like Nora and her temporary charge could use a little sobering up.
She forgot to mention that there will be severe and sobering choices ahead if lawmakers do come through with transit funding.
Why the heck did they bake in Covid relief to their ongoing operations budget?
Is it to much for are news media to tell us how many CTA employees there are pre to post COVID?
OMG!!, all you got to do is Google AI:
—Pre-Pandemic (2019):The CTA had a workforce of over 9,000 front-line operations staff and a 2019 weekday ridership base of almost 1.5 million.
—Current Numbers: As of the end of March 2024, the CTA had 10,606 employees.
—SHOCKING!!!–Other Roles: In 2024, nearly half of CTA employees (5,154 out of 10,588) worked in administration, management, and support roles.
WHO IN THE F-ing WORLD DO THE NEWS MEDIA REPRESENT??? Are they getting paid off to write this stuff by the unions? Absolute horse cr#p propagandists reporting!!!
Is that a serious question? We all know why they did it.