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.
Killing business as fast as possible. Anything to get more and more money to fund huge pensions.
Not even a consideration of reducing spending, cutting waste, etc. Nothing. Just get mo’mony, He is a moron and has no idea what he is doing. There is no fiscal responsibility in Illinois and absolutely none in Chicago.
Hopefully it’s also his career killer too
Further proof that Johnson is an incompetent moron. Try cutting wasteful spending and political hires. Try standing up to CTU and behave financially responsibly. Oh wait, CTU owns him.
And they will promptly vote with their feet. They are not shackled to Chicago.