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.
Chicago has just hit bedrock, they just can’t dig any deeper into debt.
Bankruptcy WILL come to Chicago, the next candidate if it hasn’t happened will need to run under the Bankruptcy Now motto!
you clearly have no idea how public finance works
I disagree. I think they can and will go deeper. Let’s see who is right.
With all that’s going on in the financial world, war, oil, private credit, commercial real estate collapse, we just might be seeing the beginning of the washout of all washouts. Remember, Bear Sterns collapsed in the spring of 08′, we know how things went from there. It really appears that a Whistling Past the Graveyard scenario is building. Society can’t hopelessly indebt itself into prosperity.
I agree.
The washout started in Chicago LONG before ago.
Subsidizing trash 300 MILLION with 3 UNION members on a truck while every other garbage truck in the state with 1.
Democrats have destroyed this state largely starting with Madigan in the early 70’s.