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.
Poor Mayor BJ!!
A Bill Comes Due: Chicago’s Johnson And Teachers’ Union Lose Fight For Loan To Sustain Bloated Budget | ZeroHedge
Well, hopefully, this accelerates Chicago’s financial decline so the politicians are forced to fix the insane pension system and provide sustainable growth for the future.
Seems I recall comments from Johnson when first elected regarding changes he was implementing that went something like ” the voters voted for change and I am going to give it to them.” Well the voters, as well as the nonvoters, did as Johnson said, vote for this and it needs to be given to them hard and fast with the hope that this will finally make many up to the financial realities here. We can only hope…