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.
Within a year, Johnson’s failure will be obvious
Why is the Illinois Policy outfit being such a sourpuss on this. The people, both blacks and white liberals, voted for this situation so should be complacently happy and the IPI should mind its own business.
Fear not! Brandon has initiated many root cause studies to address all the problems. We’ll have the answers in the next two or three decades. Patience!
This should not surprise anyone. The Mayor, his staff, and his advisors have no experience in running anything. They don’t understand basic P&L accounting. None of them have any urban planning, housing, law enforcement, business or even successful government experience. A few of them are learning on the job, but most of them don’t even want to learn because of their ideological orientation. We are in for three and a half more years of platitudes, BS– and rapid collapse of the quality of life in our once great city because this crew doesn’t have the experience or the will to… Read more »
They’re not here to run the city, they’re here to loot it. All the while claiming they are transforming it into a progressive utopia. There’s no interest in governance.