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.
The bottom line is $1.25 bil bond proposal is asking alderman in relatively prosperous, high tax revenue generating wards to OK transferring tax revenue to poor low tax revenue generating wards. And just like BCH, it’s not clear who would have authority to decide who gets what $? City council alderman vote or board appointed by mayor (i.e. CTU)?