Totaling the unsustainable tax increases and windfall revenue during Pritzker Administration – Wirepoints
May 26, 2026
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With $162 billion more from taxpayers, couldn’t you deliver a few bond upgrades, too
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A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
Failure is the only option now.
Bankruptcy is the only path forward.
Nonsense. Everything is fine. No problems. Everyone in Illinois should stay there. Please do not infect the rest of the country with your disease. This type of mass mental illness could be contagious.
As long as residents blame Trump and not the long entrenched Democrats, the financial distress will get worse.
Władziu, Chicago’s financial problems go back decades. Brandon’s obviously an idiot, but what does that say about the people who voted for him? One can say the same about Donald. The USD$ is in structural decline. His erratic tariff policies will make the vast majority of Americans poorer.
Back decades of DEMOCRATS who own this problem.
“The US dollar is in structural decline” Fact: The capitalization of just the NYSE is more than ALL of the European Exchanges combined. The US is still the only place to park huge money. Your opinion on tariffs is shortsighted as you are not seeing in the forest for the trees: The bigger picture: Large foreign capital are and will continue to flow in the US in the coming years, fueling domestic manufacturing construction that is already taking place. Those factories once completed will need employees to run them, thereby increasing American prosperity. Example 1: Trump brokered an historic $950… Read more »