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 city needs more money and the mayor is not willing to kick the pension can down the road just to avoid increasing taxes. Scoop up those TIF funds and raise those property taxes. A world class city like Chicago needs more money and it’s about time the voters pay their fair share.
Or, get a bunch of limo libs from, say, Oswego to dig deep into their pockets and donate to the city that is always crying for more. OT, any word on your neighbor that snuck the gun into the White Sox game ?
Don’t forget Johnson seems to have millions salted away in some sort of “Development Fund” that I read about here the other day. By the way was thinking the other day that I haven’t seen you post in a while and glad to see you are ok and still with us all