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.
2026 is an election year. Say no more.
Leave it to the useless Chicago Media to miss the real story here: The required service cuts and layoffs have been delayed for more than five years.
All these political animals need to be removed from their roles of responsibility at RTA/Metra/PACE/CTA as it is obvious they are simply incapable of acting responsibly. The tough choices need to be made whether or not Cam Buckner has a tantrum about it.
This bailout is just for this year. Next year’s ‘ask’ (demand) will be even larger. What then, Executive Directors? Cammy?
Yes. You all need to go.
Once again, all the machine cares about is avoiding layoffs for the public sector class and all the hires made possible with now spent, what was supposed to be one time, ARPA-COVID funds that is now being transferred onto the backs of DOPEY taxpayers….everything else is “kabuki theater”/ “rearrange the deck chairs on the titanic”….everyone from JB to Springfield to City Hall knows it
Sad and Pathetic.
Crooked and corrupt IL Dems will sell out the suburbs to bail out Chicago’s never ending failure and theft generating machine — the CTA. This is the payoff of one party Democrat rule.