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.
What are the basic requirements of local government in the United States? Crime control? Yes. Public education? Yes. Affordable public transportation? Yes. Appropriate help for the homeless, poor and mentally ill? Yes. How are the Democrats doing on this basic set of government functions? Throw the bums out!
You forgot collect taxes, which Cook county is proving too incompetent to do.
The Dems do not need the votes from the typical person who rides Metra, so they do not care.
They would rather spend billions on the Red Line extension to Altgeld Gardens than on train lines to the Chicago suburbs or to DuPage or Lake counties.
Amen ya think they all received the message to get your house in order.