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.
Billionaires tend not to invest in losing ventures; that’s why they’re billionaires.
You cannot give the unvarnished truth Mark, as they’ll come after you. He’s a race hustler plain and simple. He cares less about young black men who are not related to him than the most racist klansman. The young people of Chicago are mere props. This is about contracts. That is essentially what government is about,handing out contracts to supporters, donors, friends, family, mistresses. We have had two black mayors who love black people so much that they’ve let black criminals loose on them, and Venezuelan street gangs as well. Oh,and the “investment”, other frauds like Obama, Oprah, all the… Read more »
“While creating more space and creating jobs for the young Black men”
When you are a racist, everything is always about race.
Johnson is now just blabbing utter nonsense. He is dysfunctional.
Now? How about from day 1? Has he ever said anything that indicated there was something functional between his ears?
This is a Saturday Night Live skit, right? The “debt is an asset”? That’s a new theory of accounting. Create more “space for young black men”? To do what? And get $2 billion from the Bears?” Good luck with that revenue source. This guy is well deserving of his 14% approval rating.
Even the Bears with their miserable record will have a better success/approval percentage than BJ.
Sure thing Brando, mega wealthy people will line up to throw their money away on a mismanaged laughingstock sports franchise. Even funnier is the suggestion that the penny pinching McCaskeys will invest $2 billion in a stadium which Chicago would own and control. Seems like Brando is off his meds.