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.
Please stop averaging the STL metro into IL – 75% of the population is in MO. IL is much worse.
Not good.
Keep voting for bad representation, this is what you get.
What’s the lyrics from that Bruce Springsteen song…”I’m going down, down, down”
At what point in time do you acknowledge that the ship is going to sink and there is nothing that will change that? Or do you continue to listen to your masters that all is well and if we put a band-aid on this gaping hole in the side of the ship, all will be well? Newsflash: The architects of the disaster are your masters. They will never acknowledge that the ship is sinking leave alone that it is their fault the ship is sinking. They already have their spots in the lifeboats. They could not care less about whether… Read more »
Not one Democrat or public employee union Boss sees any of this economic decline as a problem.
=At what point in time do you acknowledge that the ship is going to sink and there is nothing that will change that?=
In this state- NEVER. Demographics are against it.
The ship is sinking so slowly it might not go under in our lifetimes. But when it does, it will quickly.
I hope I’m around to watch the fireworks.