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.
Lightfoot doesn’t care. Spreading out the violence to the entire city works toward the Progressive’s goal of universal basic income for all. Their dunderheaded thinking is that if you pay the poorest in Chicago a “living wage” to simply do nothing then you have solved the root causes of poverty and then crime will be ended everywhere. Foxx, Preckwinkle and Lightfoot think the if taxpayers start to suffer then they will cry uncle and give in to this Progressive pipe dream. And then we will all happily live in a crime-free and equity blissful Utopia.
16th police district includes Jefferson Park. In a story above a a young man was shot there.