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.
I believe the good thing out of this is the Mayor and his policies will turn the Chicago more Red leaning and possibly turn Illinois into a swing state as soon as the next election cycle. Maybe we should thank BJ.
How’s that “ Vote blue no matter who!” thing working out for you, Zoe? Elections have consequences.
The voters elected a completely unqualified candidate to lead the third-largest city in the country, and they got exactly what they asked for. He would have struggled as mayor of South Bend, Indiana—but he wouldn’t have been the first to fail there either.