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.
Sorry…no “help from Springfield”—there is no money. Chicago is the sanctuary city and must solve the issues itself.
Every day more and more people, for whatever reason, come to think, “Suggest anything you can come up with, as long as you quit admitting people who cross illegally now.” The Fed DC Swamp’s got to figure out how to get that done before they’ll be willing to bail out ‘sanctuary’ cities and states. And they can’t figure it out. They know they can’t ‘fix’ Chicago and Springfield without ‘fixing’ every Blue city in every Blue state at the same time. They’ll have to ‘fix’ Blue Denver-n-Boulder and the rest of not-nearly so Blue (our outright Red) Colorado. And they’ll… Read more »