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 do not have the funds to finish this
sad looking building. The funds needed to maintain this structure are no where close to the level needed.
One year after opening they will be lucky to
attract 500 per month, after five years they will
Have the begging bowls out looking for money.
simply put this is an effort in futility.
Don’t put it past the Illinois democrats to propose statewide taxation to fund, what they will call, a huge tourist attraction in Chicago.
Before when it was a beautiful park I would’ve worried. Now I’d worry no one will want to move there
This monument will be about as successful as the King Center was in Atlanta.
I can’t envision a crush of gentrification going on around a Stalin – era looking building that is already falling apart. Like the empty promises of the edifice to Barry, such plans are foolish, won’t amount to much and would be better off quickly abandoned.