Thank you, Richard M. Daley. Totaling the unsustainable tax increases and windfall revenue during Pritzker Administration – Wirepoints
May 26, 2026
2 Comments
With $162 billion more from taxpayers, couldn’t you deliver a few bond upgrades, too
-- Connecting the dots between our economy, government and business --
Audio and summary 
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.
Although the NBC Chicago article was published Feb 23, 2015 and updated February 11, 2016, it seems an occasional reminder of the massive unused CTA underground concrete box is reasonable.
Perhaps label such articles as repost from …
Good to repost when we are about to embark on a massive infrastructure spend. Do you think any lessons were learned from building the concrete box for $400 million? Doesn’t feel like it, when a primary guiding principal is just whether your district is a D or an R.
In related news, Citizens Against Government Waste names Illinois Governor JB Pritzker Porker of the month.
“Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) named Illinois Governor J. B. Pritzker (D) September 2019 Porker of the Month for signing a $40.1 billion budget without any spending restraints and $1.4 billion in pork-barrel projects.”
http://www.cagw.org/porker-of-the-month/cagw-names-illinois-gov-j-b-pritzker-september-2019-porker-month
Pigs get fed. Hogs get slaughtered. That’s the old commodity floor traders wisdom.
In this situation it is the taxpayers being slaughtered not the porker.
A few thoughts on this. It was a big win for the construction unions. They got their pay and union dues funds. And the politicians got their campaign contributions from the unions. About the CTA riders paying for this, that is not truthful. The tax increases are being put on gas and licensing, in other words,on car drivers (mostly in the suburbs.). I did not see the CTA fares go up with JBs tax increases. CTA fares have barely increased over many years. And the idea that the prior administration and CTA management did this made me laugh. Does anyone… Read more »