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.
The national price decline – the first, and steepest, since 2012 – has finally reached Chicago. I predicted this months ago. Not because I’m a smart guy, but because I’ve been paying attention. And I predict: prices will continue declining more, and more, until that today’s $700,000 1970’s over-HELOC’d three bedroom split-level reaches a price that families can afford again.
Smart people recognize that electing a Socialist will do nothing to address the problems that the city faces . It will only make them worse. Leave while you can.