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.
Gosh, there are so many people to thank, I don’t want to forget anyone…. There are so many people and bad decisions that have caused the financial collapse of Illinois government, there isn’t any one single magic issue. This is the result of decades of poor decision making and business deals made by either morons or thieves. It continues today, as an example with the current government entities building annual budgets around ill-conceived one-time federal funding. It is beyond stupid. There of course needs to be a business person running the state and being allowed to make the hard decisions… Read more »
Who’s to blame for this year’s property tax bills? Democrats. The Democrat politicians and the democrat voters who put them there. Single party rule by democrats in Cook County and the City of Chicago. All abetted by state Democrat politicians and their Democrat voters who further enshrine public pensions and refuse to convert to 401k plans instead for new employees. In short, Democrats are to blame.