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 SNAP benefits dry up and food pantries are flooded by poor and needy, Pinhead wants to run more businesses and jobs out of Chicago. This has to end
“Deep blue Chicago”- yes, it is very blue, but Trump got 22% of the vote- doubling what he got in ‘20. There is hope that common stud trying to make a comeback in this town.
Johnson, and his faithful, are always right on time with the whining and crying about mean ole whomever when they don’t get the money they are constantly seeking. Never a word about layoffs, cutting useless social services programs ( seen any violence interruptors or peacekeepers st the illegals cheerleading meetings lately doin anything?No.) or fiscal responsibility. Nope. Give your wife a useless, taxpayer outfitted office at City Hall. Keep a security detail that rivals Trumps around you ( and Rahm and Lightfoot, btw) 24/7. Find a million ways to waste money and not a single one to save any. And… Read more »
“There’s a reason why more of our people have left this city than any other group,” Johnson told a mostly Black audience at the Nov. 1 town hall organized by his supporters. “We ought to demand the ultrarich do more, so that we can get more.” – democrats have controlled the city and county for a century. Has it dawned on him that high tax, high fees, large pension coverage and debt, being lax in crime and placing illegals in poor Black neighborhoods and giving them billions in assistance not afforded to Black citizens might, just might, be driving Blacks… Read more »