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.
LAYOFF TIME of the political hacks!!! No one is GUARANTEED A JOB FOR LIFE !!!
In his recent quotes, why does BJ lump cutting services with raising property taxes? The City of Chicago budget is so bloated that I would think a 10 percent cut would eliminate any perceived need to raise property taxes. I would also think that if BJ would implement a relative few of the many cost-cutting recommendations in recent years, such as those from E and Y, he could achieve a 10 percent cut in bloat.
Johnson can’t see beyond the boundaries of the plantation in his mind.
note: not a 10 percent cut in services; a 10 percent cut in bloat