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.
The fallacy here is that we imagine that the current in-power group gives a rat’s-patoot about “a fragile fiscal state”. They don’t. They are saddling the City with more debt at the same time they are building significant amounts of expensive new housing on the west and south sides–the edifices will survive bankruptcy. Detroit and Gary are role models and not cautionary tales. Bankruptcy is a blessing, a salvation, and not a curse. Spend until they stop you: Oopsie!