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.
I fear “economic recovery” here means something completely different to lightfoot than it does to people living in the real world. I think it means “tax recovery” to her.
Step 1: Ask Federal Government to bail Chicago out
Step 2: Spend money inappropriately without learning from the mistakes
Step 3: Repeat
it appears czars have gone out of style
Czars is racist against Russian people. And italians, because czar comes from the root word Caesar, and it’s PC these days to accuse him of genocide and destroying a republic. And he was racist too.
Cultural appropriation?