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.
Cook County is a dumping ground for lazy brother in laws and ghost payroll bold bricks – you could fire half of them and see no decrease in government service.
Bowmanville property tax rates are now doubling every 9 years.
How to remove your property from the tax roll. – Steve Emerson
This is going to happen every year from now on. No stopping it, there is a pension time bomb exploding. The Shitty of Chicago cops need nice homes in Punta Gorda, Fl and the taxpayer will pay for them. Services will go down, down, down, and taxes will go up, up and away.
I’m not a PPF fan, but he’s right on this point. Most of the punch-drunk IL taxpayers will put up with much more in PT increases before they move out of state. IL taxpayers are already over two percent as the PT-to-home value ratio. What will it take to light a fire under them: three percent, four, eight?
“The Shitty of Chicago cops need nice homes in Punta Gorda, Fl”
I am okay with that.
What I do have a problem with however is, spending one more red cent on the the Chicago Bored of Edyoukation, CTU and any of the other apparatchiks associated with the “Red Indoctrination Process” of the children.
P.S. Does anyone know if the term red cent should have been in caps with quotation marks around it?