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.
The same ‘local leaders’ who destroyed downtown suddenly have the solution to fix the very problem they caused. NO THANK YOU
The WP Editorial Board whines that their Dem/blue/progressive downtowns are grimy, gritty-n-empty. Avoids mentioning that it’s Dem/blue/progressive employees, who could work in those downtowns if they wanted to, who have decided they’d rather stay home and work-n-spend money in the suburbs. And, of course, the editors don’t explain why it’s sensible to expect that people who’ve decided they don’t want to work in blue-city downtown areas because they’re gritty, unsafe, expensive and inconvenient are going to move to the same neighborhoods they don’t want to work in just as soon as taxpayers find a way to help developers make money… Read more »