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.
Johnson is exactly right about Daley’s beyond terrible decisions to sell off the Skyway and city parking. Unfortunately, Johnson is also exactly wrong about just about everything else he has in front of him. For example, it would not occur to Mayor CTU that forcing CPS to take out high interest loans to cover a $500 million deficit is as bad as Daley’s Skyway and parking decisions.
looks like middle of the road dems have have enough of the CTU/Brandon & CO clown show….On the other hand it was Bills brother, Richie, who really ramped up the $$$gigantic$$$ pubic sector contract giveaways to CTU, FOP, etc during his mayor ship in 90s & 00s
Try a republican in leadership…….WHAT HAVE WE GOT TO LOSE???
Tom Valentine, formerly a reporter for the Chicago Tribune, stated on his talk show Radio Free America years ago that over half of the US hard goods were manufactured in the southwest side of the city. Scumbag Bill was one of the leaders approving the passage of NAFTA and increasing the profits of the donor class. Does anyone remember the plants of Sunbeam and Ekko?
That giant Sunbeam manufacturing complex on Roosevelt Rd in Chicago was very close to the GE Major Appliances complex in Cicero where I worked as an engineer in the 80s. The GE complex closed several years after the Sunbeam complex closed in the early 80s.
any one remember YO-HO potato chips on Armitage Ave?
Yo-Ho and a Pepsi my lunch for many years. I truly miss the flavor of those chips
I saw those products and more in almost every house I visited as a kid. Great products that worked well. Employed many relatives
And friends, all those jobs gone!