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.
Playa dismisses SpotShotter as a walkie talkie on a stick. Playa seemingly ignores the instances where police were alerted to a shooting long before a photo call was made. Playa feels the program is racist as well and perhaps doesn’t have the funds necessary for it after lavishing money upon the new arrivals. That the city he ( in theory ) runs is billions of dollars in the red is no secret.
Please Mayor Johnson, cancel shot spotter, even though you kept it in place for the DNC. The people that elected you will love you and I am sure it will have no effect on your crime clearance rate. Your constituents deserve, in spades, every last benefit of your vast decision making ability. Your neighboring states thank you.