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.
Thank Stacey and the CTU for getting this clown elected
Mayor pinhead and friends should really
stop using the LSD and magic shrooms.
That sh.. has cooked their brains.
Pinhead is boarding the last train to Palookaville.
” All Aboard”.
Until the supporting bond markets completely withhold issuing new debt and stop picking up the unsold issuance balances, this will change nothing. After all, these are CPS leaders and they don’t know the difference between an A, B or C because they always get a pass.
Just curious. According to that fat pig that calls itself your governor and the mental defective that calls itself your mayor, is Fitch a bunch of carnival barkers? It’s hard to believe that any functional humans voted for either of these two piles, leave alone the rest of the miscreants you genius’ continue to elect.
See-BS Snooze dumbs down the issue facing Chicago’s finances as some sort of ‘disagreement’. The S.S. City of Chicago had its keel torn open by Mayor Richard M. Daley’s overspending and mortgaging of assets. Subsequent Mayors let the flooding continue. Not to be outdone, Mayor Lori Lightweight and Mayor Cliff Notes tried to let the water out of the ship by drilling massive financial holes in its hull: Mayor Lightweight let the thug element and Antifa knuckleheads drive businesses out of The Loop. Mayor Cliff Notes let the CTU dictate policy. The stern is out of the water. Pretty soon,… Read more »
“Mayor Lightweight let the thug element and Antifa knuckleheads drive businesses out of The Loop.”
That’s what I believe, her indifference to the business district, nearly cheering on its destruction, was the beginning of the end.
When a ship starts to sink, the change in trim is hardly noticeable. The holes in the hull almost imperceptibly fill inner spaces. Those aboard don’t even realize that buoyancy has been compromised. Such was the S.S. City of Chicago during Richard M. Daley’s time in office. Above the waterline, the ship looked just fine. Below decks, shipboard personnel were already aware of a serious problem. Their paychecks cleared, so they went about their more mundane duties. The Rahmfather’s time as skipper was marked by ‘Naah, it’ll be fine.’ management of the problem. Lori Lightweight thought that opening the hull… Read more »