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.
Maybe Chicago needs to hire city workers who want to work, not friends and relatives. Supervisors need to leave their offices and make sure workers are actually working. Chicago needs accountablity.
Trying to get dead tree cut down on side street in parkway. Filed requests. City started cutting down dead tree across street. Said, as long as you’re here, cut down ours. Told this was different work order, not ours. City could have saved expense of time and money sending out new crew instead of spending extra ten minutes cutting down ours. Took six months for new crew. Typical city and city workers.
I read a tweet today that the famed economist Milton Freedman went to China and saw workers on construction sites digging with shovels instead using power equipment. He asked why this was the case, and the Chinese official replied that it was to ensure there were enough jobs for everyone. Freedman replied that they should trade their shovels for spoons if that was the goal. This is why it takes two separate crews to cut down two trees on the same street. They want to make work for everyone. They should give the crew axes and handsaws too to make… Read more »
They’d pull out their cellphones and call off if that happened on the job site