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.
Even Fidelity seems to be oblivious to the gobbledygook that Delgado is selling here. No mention of headcount reduction. No plan to retrench into a system that is more affordable to operate. All three of the operating arms of the RTA need to cut costs and do it now. Nothing of substance. Without a substantial reduction in costs right now, the operating arms of the RTA are already out of money. The cliff is here. Now. With a liberal supermajority in Springfield, you can count on any tax hike scheme to pass with no meaningful dissention. This will hurt taxpayers… Read more »
I couldn’t agree with you more. The current system is not aligned with need. Chicago has
A need but not the suburbs, Pace busses run empty, Metra now is less than half full and it
Will not get better. The CTA is bloated with
Incompetent workers. Make the cuts needed.
The future might work with cuts.
Otherwise we will be back wasting money
Even more than now.