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.
And here we thought Hizoner JumBo was the clown… Honestly, expected more from her – typically the rigor of a law degree from U of C indicates the capacity for clear, rational thought… Apparently the chance to flex her mayoral mandate (joke) was too much. Proving the old adage that power corrupts absolutely.
Below is all that need remembering. Cook County is filled with white moral busybodies and minority government dependents. If you’re a resident and don’t fit in one of those two camps you live in a foreign land.
“It may be better to live under robber barons than under the omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber barons cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”