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.
All money goes into the general revenue fund, regards of what departments name is put on it. It is called the debt and credit system of accounting.
“Alleging police misconduct” is not proving misconduct. When the city offers to pay millions without proof it will only encourage everyone to allege something.
Im sorry but it seems to me we are paying way to much. Is this Pinheads idea of reparations
Get wise “ shocked “ CC members. It’s all part of the Marxist school teacher’s plan to rubber stamp massive payouts for dubious claims, bankrupting the city and denigrating the CPD in the process. Killing two birds with one stone as the old adage goes.
Who in the #{!! is loaning all this money to the city?
High yield muni funds (Nuveen), institutional investors (hedge funds, insurance companies, tax exempt portfolio managers), and retail investors that chase a higher yield. Anyone who believes the extra yield is worth the risk. As long as those institutions and people continue to believe the extra yield is worth it, it will continue for quite some time.
The town of Sicily.
It’s going to have to move overseas, I doubt US lenders will do this anymore.