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.
Check this out about over and under payments for workers in Chicago.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/city-orders-audit-pay-mix-143800328.html
Criminal.
I wonder what the budget deficit really is.
Juneteenth is today. Now the only state that still has slavery is Illinois. Illinois has enslaved the taxpayers for generations to come.
The public sector unions are your master. You work for them; they do not work for you.
Cook County could lay off a billion dollars worth of patronage and DEI mopes and you’d never even notice a diminishment of “services”. At this point IL, the city and county are fiscally irresponsible for NOT making the needed cuts to get us out of debt. Hopefully it gets so bad IL is forced to be the first state to just go all in on AI and replace every useless pension parasite in government.