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.
I have a great idea. Let’s cut spending! Get rid of the flowers in the parkways, the stupid street sweeping, all social justice initiatives, close all the useless Office of This and That located all around the city, limit overtime (and threaten to fire anyone who ‘slows down’ because they can’t do overtime), and so on, and so on. The City’s budget last year for 2018 was $10.1 Billion. A 10% haircut should be easy. Heck, I bet I can cut $10,000,000 a day for the next 100 days and hit a billion and hardly anyone would notice.