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 $830,000,000 loan is interest only for the first 20 years. This is insane, it’s looting the treasury. How much of this money would find its way back in to the pockets of BLM Brandon supporters, or even Brandon himself? Likely all of it.
Well they should, and be fearful of Trump’s approval rating on Federal budget payroll and expenditure cuts. Watch the City Council videos of public commentary periods, note the strong anti-administration testimonies from once-silent ordinary Chicago citizens. Trump has supporters now even in most leftist Chicago aldermanic districts, hopefully prospective politically-moderate financially-conservative aldermanic candidates are rallying in advance of future city elections.