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.
Chicago’s public-sector dictators know “meaningful change” isn’t required for reelection.
Mayor’s Office has hired Senator Fetterman’s director of communications, Joe Calvello, to improve and moderate public image of bumbling Mayor Johnson. Expect rebranded Brandon, more fawning PR releases and billboards and commercials.
It is all about “ rebranding “ these days, which is newspeak for as pops used to put it “ having more BS than a brass band .” From people buying into whatever some vapid, twenty something influencers are selling to believing the likes of Joe and Pritzger telling everyone how great things are going, people have, for the most part, become mindless, drooling gullible fools that lap up whatever the newest snake oil salesman tells them.
Good article!