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.
An aldermanic discussion is as follows. “Any of you have a way to destroy more neighborhoods in the city?”
“Yeah, I got an idea.”
These alder people want anti-gentrification in low-income neighborhoods but low rent in high-income neighborhoods.
It is ironic that they go crazy when developers build expensive housing in cheap neighborhoods but demand they build cheap housing in expensive neighborhoods.