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.
Pinhead…Cut the fat from the budget. Quit bootlicking Stacey. And spend less on illegals and more on Chicagoans
Ferguson is old school “don’t spend what you don’t have”. Johnson is new school where you drain all your resources and then move on when it gets too awful and blame everyone else for your failure. Or, in the new-speak, is it actually a victory to bring Chicago to its knees?
When mismanagement is the dominant activity, the ace in the hole is always to raise property taxes and/or borrow more.