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.
Who in the world can figure out this convoluted mess?? Per Austin Bergs, must read, trib article from a couple days ago (https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/27/opinion-zohran-mamdami-lesson-chicago-new-york-richard-ravitch/) states Chicago is the only major city without a charter with no GAAP accounting required? And the state has no Annual Comprehensive Financial Report (ACFR) in 3 years? Nobody know where all the ARPA-COVID $billions went (nobody’s been laid off, no programs cut, etc)…..Folks, wake-up!!! what’s going on is NOT an epic clown show of incompetence, it’s an epic con job of colossal proportion to bilk you out of every last dime of chumbalone $bucks$ you got.… Read more »
To top it all off here’s team $Brando$ today putting on a budget town hall C&J /dog & pony show for dopey taxpayers blaming who else–DJT. ABSOLUTELY PATHETIC equity hustling at it’s finest$$$$$! (https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_2aa6b921-ddd7-4b00-9b9a-ba077edd4776.amp.html)