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.
Developing, soon tax payer money will be dispensed to the hotel builder by the state, county, and city under the guise of providing jobs to a project that will bring in revenue to government coffers. But, as usual, that tax payer money will be lost, gone forever when this project falls flat on its face. Politicians will rave about the project, pat each other on the back, hold press conferences and when it goes belly up will immediately blame President Trump. Any bets?
Wasted investment. Obama’s tower will not bring visitors.
From what I’ve seen of the Obama center build that hotel far enough away so when it collapses it won’t damage the new hotel