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.
Not sure I got math exactly right off my cellphone (I’m lazy), but at a cost of $663,000 per apartment unit CTU/Brandons $100 mil BCH would produce a meniscal 150 apt units and his $1.25 bil bond for homeless would produce a dinky 1,880 apts!!!! CHA has a yearly budget of $1.3 bil but know pol or press ask much what all those tax $ are spent on, or are spent on alternative programs like “Move to Work”(MTW)
Yup, we had an article on just that earlier. The whole debate was silly.