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.
Isn’t there a hiring freeze, or doesn’t that apply to mayor I need a larger staff ?
Isn’t that conflict of interest ?
Funny how activists that somehow wind up on the scrap heap are reborn with a Panic Attacks lucrative position.
Being Bedi is being listed as “Johnson’s strategy chief” does this mean Johnson is footing the bill for her services?
If it were anyone else but Johnson, I would say he cannot be serious! But alas it is Johnson, and he is serious. If I routinely did stupid stuff like him, I’d have panic attacks too.