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’ve been in a position as to whether get an expensive haircut and manicure or pay my water bill. I paid my water bill.
Good thinkin’! I shall alert the media.
The point being that budget whiz Johnson, with his sage advice on how to fix CHI’s financial ills, decided his personal grooming took precedence over paying a 3K water bill.
Yeah, it’s everyone else. Everything he has done and said has made perfect sense. It’s everyone else, they did it. I am a victim. Useless POS. The rating agencies are just catching up on their accuracy, perhaps the fees Jumbo paid for ratings have expired and now a more current evaluation can be done.
Hah! From the rich guy who can’t pay his bills!
He’s in the position to pay his bills and chooses not to!
Marxists gonna Marxist!
I love the way the Trib runs this as a real story and not some onion-like parody of stupidity. If you cut the Trib into small pieces it is a perfect substitute for Scott’s.