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.
“Voters chose amateurism at a high cost”
BS! Voter chose RACE.
Forrest notes Daley Jr’s ” chronic deficits, expensive labor contracts and debt.” Doesn’t mention that he sold the streets to private equity, for money long gone. I suppose he could have been worse, as perhaps illustrated by the subsequent mayors. The article would benefit from some links to document his assertions of the wonderfulness of DaleyJr’s reign.