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.
Illinois taxpayers need sound, ethical, financial stewardship at the municipal, county, and state levels. You would think such stewardship would be a requirement, but, apparently, it’s not.
Why not borrow from CTU?
CPS is taking a ‘payday loan’ What assets does CPS have for collateral? The same property owners who have been repeatedly abused.
More Generational theft.
Good Lord. Cook County taxes property owners to death. The public schools fritter away billions of dollars of taxpayers’ money. Then the total incompetents at the district can’t plan the cash flow properly, and the fools at the County can’t even collect the rake on time. These Democrats are simply not capable of running a basic municipal operation with any level of professionalism.
Ugh, and I just posted a comment on how aggravating it is to continually read articles on Chicago, Cook County, and Illinois mismanaging taxpayer money. It happens so frequently, it’s hard to stay current. And many times, we’re talking about large sums of money.
Yep, that’s $1,000,000,000.00. And that’s just for this year. They have no intention to ever pay it back – they’ll just throw up their hands and say the federal government will have to cover it.