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.
So New York City is #1 in per capita debt and has a pension protection clause in its constitution that is exactly the same as in Illinois, but its population has grown over the last 10 years. Like Chicago, New York loses a lot of people to other states, but in New York this is offset by immigrants from other countries and a natural increase (more births than deaths). Maybe there is a lesson here for Chicago, i.e. do more to attract immigrants to come to your city.
How many immigrants are enough for you people? Nearly 15% of America’s residents are foreign born which is the highest its been in a century, which is also the highest its been since the US began keeping this statistical record in 1860. America was less than 5% foreign born in 1970 and it just keeps going up, and up, and up. America in my youth is unrecognizable as America today. The working class neighborhood (and town) I grew up in turned from native to immigrant about 25 years ago, and today has the same average household income as it did… Read more »
With all due respect, is the term “sanctuary city” completely lost on you?