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.
Typical political animal thinking. Mortgage your future to pay current operating expenses. Chicago political animals have only their own mismanagement to thank for this deal and they have no right to complain when the purchaser collects on the deal.
“But they already made back their investment.”
Wah. Hizzoner signed the deal. This was financial Fa, Fo, and Chicagoans find themselves in the Fo phase. Any attempt to claw this back will cost plenty, not that the political animals mind <urinating> away confiscated taxpayer dollars. The ‘look’ will be dreadful and even the useless Chicago media might notice.
The immutable laws of economics.