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.
Brandon Johnson has to fill his city budget holes somehow!
Missing from the report is that the cameras issue tickets for being ONE mile/ hour over the speed limit and also that a lot of the folks issued tickets never have paid one and never will but drive around carelessly anyway.
Just call them revenue cameras. Maybe if Shotspotter could’ve been monetized into a revenue stream they’d still be around. $5 a bullet.
That many speeders normally mean the speed limit is too low for the area. This is just another money grab by the Chitty.