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.
OK, kids. Illinois is flat broke and Kammer knows this, but he won’t let that minor detail get in the way of maybe securing another great big pile of confiscated taxpayer funds for his pals to skim. Anyway…my operations planning might be a little rusty here, so please bear with me. Let’s look at a single route that political animal Kammer wants to run hourly service on: Chicago to Kansas City. We have two options: BNSF’s old Burlington Route to Galesburg and the Santa Fe’s line to KC from there. The Amtrak Southwest Chief currently runs over these rails once… Read more »
Great breakdown of running a rail line.
i found myself humming the old tune that
my grandfather hummed, “ On the old Milwaukee
Road”, he was an oiler on the Road.