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.
I’m not sure even Johnson could do a deal more boneheaded than the one Daley executed!
They can just overpay by at least five times and float a bond issue for it. No one tracks where that money goes anyway. Then they can refinance it from here to eternity when payments come due and continue to wonder why the state finances are in the toilet.
City council needs to go ahead and rubber stamp it. This is extremely urgent, no time to actually read the agreement. Just sign it and read it after it’s a done deal.
King Midas in reverse Johnson will screw this deal up seven ways from Sunday. Bet it.