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.
So the areas of the city with the most vacant lots get the majority of affordable units? Should we leave the South and West sides barren of new development? What block in Lincoln Park should we plow over to accommodate affordable housing?
The west and south sides used to look like Lincoln Park,maybe even in your lifetime. They won’t stop until all of Lincoln Park looks like the west and south sides.
How much more ‘affordable’ can housing in Black areas get? Didn’t we try ‘free’ housing, aka projects – and collectively decide that it was a miserable failure? If it wasn’t, maybe we should have kept, and not destroyed, all of those high rise affordable housing.
Affordable only when it is totally free, free property taxes, free utilities, free groceries, free cars, and so on not until it will not cost one red cent will they be happy. I’ve so had it with this crap.
It’s not good enough because the affordable housing is not in the most desirable neighborhoods. Therefore it is still discrimination, and we will have to try harder to please them.