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.
Do government employees get overtime? and a chance to spike their pensions?
These are the things that count.
These big events that close streets and wall off the park actually end up keeping people away from the Loop — just ask Loop businesses that either had to close or saw their business disappear during NASCAR
BS CBS! I’ll tell you what, how about instead of 4 days of nearly a million kids descending on Chicago and its hotels, spending ungodly sums of money to do so, to see their favorite bands, NO ONE SHOW’S UP ON THOSE DAYS!? Analyze that revenue contrast. And on a side note, how about an in-depth analysis of the make-up of the crowd…and their civility.