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.
They will just kick the can down the road and hope for the best.
Yup, I’ll put my betten money on more borrowing w yet again even higher prop taxes and ZERO layoffs. Astoundingly ZERO layoffs from all the ARPA-COVID funding. Maybe a few non-collective bargained staff will get the axe for show.
They’ll hope for and likely get the best (for themselves). By the time the **** hits the fan, most will have made or amassed millions of dollars. Let the next generations worry about this problem, aka kicking the can. This is despicable behavior of elected officials.
Start by slashing everything 10%, those departments need more must make the case to take more from someone else.
The answer is No, progressives and the entire city leadership will continue to sidestep reality because sidestepping reality is all they know. When the law and courts are forced to take over and set fiscal priorities they will continue to howl and whine about the inhumanity of it all, never recognizing that that they themselves created the mess.
Painful for the taxpayer.