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.
It may be, and I’m gonna go way out on a limb here, that he didn’t think this one out very well.
BTW, how are these “tax the ultra-rich” initiatives going for Chicago? (They used to be “tax the rich” initiatives, but that scenario doesn’t fit anymore, since so many of our public sector heroes are now rich.)
So if your company is one of the only 3% to pay the tax, are you supposed to say, Thank you, Mayor, for choosing us, or No thanks, we’re out of here, where’s the nearest suburb?
The fricking guy is clueless and sinking fast. Stacey got him elected and then.left him when she got what she wanted. Pinhead got played . But he’s too dumb to realize it
The city has reached the point of “fill-in-the blanks” taxation where you start by determining how much money you need and then working backwards with a random word generator to meet the need.
McDonald’s is also talking about leaving Chicago. The head tax was abolish because it discourages businesses from coming to and staying in Chicago. How stupid is BJ?
Plenty stupid.
Panic Attacks has about as much business acumen as Janet ( Inflation is good! ) Yellen. Don’t listen to a clown that draws his salary yet won’t pay a 3K water bill.