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.
As with much advocacy, How Can We Win is full of passion, hyperbole and half-truth. It concludes with a choice of equality for Blacks vs revenge by Blacks. It’s a bit like the climate change debate: chages that are impossible to achive (in a few years) vs planetary destruction. It is difficult to distinguish bombast from serious threat. The temptation to exit Illinois is overwhelming but such an exit begs the question of whether this is a long-term solution. Certainly those of us in our 80s have fewer days to “creep in this petty pace,” and Arizona winters are tempting… Read more »
Exiting IL is the long term solution, not because of hyperbole, but because the country is self-sorting into red and blue states. If you don’t leave, you’re going to be left behind, and suffer the consequences. Every talk radio show hosts tells you to leave. Things have not even improved marginally in Illinois in decades, and the progressive decline now is quite frankly impossible to over come. You’re going to need to be in a red state to protect you against the increasingly hostile Democrat federal government. There’s zero encouragement that things are getting any better in blue states, and… Read more »
Chicago doesn’t want reform beyond more giveaway programs, more free stuff and less cops on the street…what is so hard to understand?
Not true, the problem is that only ~30% of the city votes… mostly Karens and the Wokesters.
Smart people want reform and vote, there just isn’t enough of us.
You’re right, there are not enough of you. The sensible people started leaving in the 1950’s and accelerated in the 60’s and 70’s… a few sensible people returned in the 90’s for Daley but it’s been downhill since then.
Best line;
These are the results of progressives’ “blue social model” of urban government — ever-higher taxes (Johnson wants $800 million more) to nourish government employee unions.
The actual choice is do I stay in the Chitty or do I flee to safer ground? Tens of thousands have chosen to Flee. Ken Griffen is the happiest man in the world. The Best day of your life will be the day you leave. Crime is completely out of control and getting worse. The biggest criminals are the Chitty Government raping the people for taxes and delivering nothing.
The CTU will have it’s way – no rule of law will stop the Marxists.
I’m not sure Chicago is ‘ready’ for reform even now.
I think that if Chicago was really ‘ready’ for reform, we wouldn’t be reading that only 30% of the people who are eligible to vote for a new mayor – and ‘reform,’ – will likely even bother voting.
I’ve often wondered how people who won’t take the time to vote can none-the-less be fine with spending endless amounts of time complaining about what’s happened since the last election.
Spot. On.
No matter what they pick DECLINE is cast in Stone.
Ponzi Pension scheme will eat up all the Chittys Money like cancer.
Thousands of students were graduated with Zero job skills except criminal.
Business are fleeing in record numbers, so NO JOBS.
Criminals are at very low risk of arrest.
Best of luck of turning this around at this point. Like pissing in the wind, nothing but talk but little real change (except down).