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.
For a mayor who claims to be the first “non-machine” mayor fighting the “white machine”, is the reality that there has never been a more public sector friendly from CTU to FOP to XYZ, give them +100% of what they ask for and more!!, keep quiet on HB 3657!!, mayor than are CTU/Brandon? Astoundingly, Brandon gave FOP more than they where asking for and is now giving Local 2 firefighters the same deal in bankrupt Chicago!!!: The tentative, six-year contract hammered out under pressure from a mediator includes no major union concessions while matching pay raises — up to 20%… Read more »
The word “progressive” is from the word “progress.” A lot of what the people you noted want or do seems to be the opposite of progress; at least, for most of society. Progress is not giving a portion of society more and more free money. A good example of progress is to increase the number of children who can read and do math at or beyond their grade level.