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.
punitive taxes will kill any chance that Chicago draws job creators to live here
Good intentions are the values of the liberal, not good outcomes. Having good intentions (example: Lori Lightfoot) is all that matters to the Leftist/Liberal, regardless of the harm that’s inevitable.
“I mean, Johnson is talking about spending tens of millions of dollars to convert old LaSalle Street office buildings to residential use. Raising the transfer tax so much at one time could undo the progress the city wants on LaSalle.”
I guess that’s one way to look at progress. Many people would give an example of progress in a declining downtown of a major city as getting businesses to expand or move there.
If passed, would Bring Home Chicago tax be used for ‘new migrant’ homeless mess?