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.
265 million plus in the hole at Valley View 365u time for closings and cuts also.
That or increasing taxes. Those are your only choices.
How refreshing. A School District that acknowledges its fiscal shortcomings, and resolves to take concrete steps to rectify it Without asking Taxpayers for more money.
The Chicago Public Schools should try that approach, but Mayor Johnson doesn’t want to alienate the foot soldiers and donations he’ll need to get reelected.
Chicago should follow their lead.
yeah, but in Chicago we suffer from are “systemic community disinvestment” blah, blah, blah bs.
That’s the message they keep using to get their people elected. Apparently the majority of the Chicago voters agree with them.
I don’t think they agree. Trump is particularly unpopular in Chicago, Chicagoans are pro-choice and they vote Dem robotically. Those are the main reasons they vote as they do.
Maybe the ILGOP shouldn’t run a candidate for Governor that doesn’t think an exception to abortion should be available for rape or incest?
You can continue to point to your single issue polls but that’s not how elections are decided. Voters clearly prefer candidates that offer them abortion without restrictions and tax and spend policies vs what the opposition offers.
The complaints from the left around “systemic” anything seems to really land with Democrats and there are a lot of those in Chicago.
Pathetically, so few vote (20% turnout?) and of those that do vote so many have skin in the $game$.
Not voting is also a decision. Those people have decided that it doesn’t matter who is elected and they would rather leave it up to the smaller percentage of people that actually vote. In essence, they have provided their vote by proxy, no different than shareholders of a stock. The people that vote clearly like what they are getting.
Yes, those who don’t vote are essentially saying they don’t care who gets elected. They shouldn’t complain when they see these elected officials make boneheaded decisions adversely affecting the populace.