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.
The correct word is “uninhabitable.”
Looks like it is amateur hour for the reporters at the Atlantic again. Don’t understand why anyone still pays attention to that garbage. Chicago’s population peaked at over 3.6 million in the 1950s – and back then seen as the City of Big Shoulders. Now called ungovernable with roughly 1 million less people? Size of the city was not a concern back in the 50s. What changed other than the introduction of many progressive policies and ton of welfare spending?
Saboteurs from the top down, to the bottom. Money and power seekers riding waves of emotions caused by the drug pipeline, illegal drugs pipeline, recipe for creation of gangs. So it’s no longer “it’s the economy stupid.” New addition is “it’s the crime rate too, stupid.”
It’s the Progressives way:
1. Relentlessly promote and implement policies that violate reality and common sense
2. Label any dissenters as evil, uncaring people.
3. As the situation predictably deteriorates, scream for more and more funding.
4. When the chaos is no longer deniable, whine that nobody can be expected to succeed in such deplorable conditions.
5. Repeat cycle, with more vigor.
It’s not just Progressive politicians. Teacher unions follow the same model. And now they are putting all their energy behind a merger of the two groups.
It’s not Lightweight’s fault, nobody can govern these Democrat cities
RoboCop would be a start