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.
How long until major cuts to Cook County Health and much of the Chicago Municipal services? Doesn’t Lightfoot have to meet with the 20% pension funded Police for a new deal this summer? Even we could never have predicted this acute of a stress for an already, totally broke city. The County has a better pension system (60%) but is hemorrhaging 100s of millions yearly now, by recent reports.
Ted? Mark?
“Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle not ready to consider layoffs as ‘economy falls off a cliff’ because of coronavirus crisis ”
– her lips are moving, she’s lying.