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.
We just drove past all the Calumet stuff yesterday Wolf Lake, Hegewisch Marsh, all the great old distopian looking industry that goes on and on for miles along the south shore line. Its an amazing place, scary in many ways. A testament to the industrial revolution of the 1870’s truly a skeletal remains to the activity that made us and the world great. Now its all in China probably, industry of this weight and magnitude surely had to go somewhere. Sad that we are now incapable of executing muscular industry again, Calumet, Hoover Dam, Golden Gate, Indiana Skyway, etc. Even… Read more »
Chicago has used the surrounding waterways as dumps for centuries! Now we’re concerned!