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.
The more money is shoveled into the Homeless – Industrial Complex, the more of a problem homelessness becomes. Look at the billions spent in California, for example. And wherever I look around Chicago, there are more homeless encampments under L tracks, in the parks, etc. So Chicago has more funds now to feed the Homeless – Industrial Complex – the sole purpose of which is to *not* assist the homeless to lead independent and healthy lives, but to feed a huge homeless services bureaucracy and the attendant useless “programs”, which only exacerbate the problem I know this, as I used… Read more »
The most interesting analysis of this program would be to see how much per unit and per square foot these units are costing. In previous programs, government constructed units cost two to three times what similar private enterprise built units cost. Units on the South Side for example, near the university of Chicago, were well over three times the cost from similar units rehabbed or built new by purely the private sector. I suspect no one at City Hall will ever support a good look see.