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.
Harvey will know it’s in dire financial straits when it has to turn over ownership of city hall to satisfy a lawsuit judgement against the town as payment as East St. Louis did when it couldn’t pay the family of a man beaten into a coma by other people in his jail holding cell.
The right answer is for start to allow municipal bankruptcy and then HELLO Chicago….
Harvey wants “fiscal relief via a state takeover of finances.” If they obtain it, what happens then? Does the State take on some of the municipal debt? Or does the State provide a direct subsidy for essential services? Or what?
They seriously need to just dissolve the town. The government there is actively dragging the town down, it would be better off unincorporated.