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.
Cut the red-tape? Get rid of the subsidized housing set-aside requirements, and watch the residential high-rise boom in response.
Only reason LaSalle Street high-rises are being converted to residential apartment high-rises is because City of Chicago (Mayor) is offering $150 million worth of real estate tax-breaks, in addition to Fed affordable housing loans. Johnson is buying these projects, at significant out-of-pocket cost to Chicago’s remaining real estate taxpayers. Bum deal. Bum mayor.
Soviets lament Soviet bureaucracy. Will create new 5 year plan to increase cement production to build more apartment blocks. A new Soviet Day is dawning, comrades!
Old Zippy would be better off naming it,
“ Cut the Cheese “.
As a famous prison warden once said,
“ Lordie it disappeared like a fart in the wind”.