Totaling the unsustainable tax increases and windfall revenue during Pritzker Administration – Wirepoints
May 26, 2026
10 Comments
With $162 billion more from taxpayers, couldn’t you deliver a few bond upgrades, too
-- Connecting the dots between our economy, government and business --
Audio and summary 
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.
Most leftists think they are moderate. This poll doesn’t mean Chicagoans want normal. They still want far left. They just call themselves moderate.
You beat me to it. Well Stated.
If they didn’t want him, why did all the voters stay home and let the CTU elect him? Didn’t have to be a psychic to see the results.
The voters stayed home because Vallas is just more of the same old failed democrat leadership and he excited absolutely nobody. The communists however were excited and took office with the lowest voter turnout ever. Note to the IL Republican party, please run a real Republican in Chicago. They can and will win. If Chicago had a Republican candidate in 2023 we wouldn’t be stuck with the current clown. Chicago may not be ready for reform but it is ready for retribution against the clown show democratic party.
Does anybody consider Brandon, CTU & crew, etc to be “progressives” anymore and not simply the “new machine” guaranteed upper-income public sector equity hustling opportunists that they are? No different than the old school machine/ Operator 150 guys trying to stay awake at Streets & San while making a $gigantic$ paycheck on the taxpayers dime in this 67yrs on the streets of Chicago guys mind….. What are the motivations of those in media, academia or dem machine politics that keep pushing this narrative that somehow there’s a difference on a dopey public is the bigger question? Who are the dopes… Read more »
We want a moderate, and honest, governor too.
Chicago can thank the Melanin First crowd.