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.
“William Frey, senior fellow in the Metropolitan Policy Program at The Brookings Institution, said Illinois is losing young people of child-bearing age, a loss compounded when those people go on to have their children in other states. And Illinois isn’t attracting enough young people from elsewhere, he said.”
You mean a state that promotes and encourages unrestrited abortion, and celebrates perversion and degeneracy, is losing young people of child-bearing ages to other states, like Utah, Colorado, FL and TX? Say it ain’t so JB, say it ain’t so!
“The decline was just 18,124 people, or about one-tenth of 1%…”
But JB said these are just some college students leaving the state for school, right?
“We like to compare ourselves to New York and to L.A.,” said Erin Aleman, executive director of the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning.”
Lately, we’ve been comparing ourselves to Detroit!
Remember when Chiraq was Second City? There were jobs, affordable housing, fun and opportunity. We’ve come a long way.