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.
Water is a human right. Go dig your own well and take your own water for free. No one is stopping you (although my city’s zoning code prohibits it). Or put a cistern on your property and collect it – Lord knows the last few springs here have been the wettest ever. I mean, that water falls from the sky for free, every other day, inches at a time during the spring. So freaking much that it backs up into my basement and I have three pumps to remove it all. Or put the basket on your head and walk… Read more »
For some reason it seems that Lightfoot and Pritzker are only interested In taking care of the hapless people in the state of Illinois. What about breaks for us middle class folks, you are making us poor also. I forget, that’s part of the big overall plan.