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.
So the choice is to heat your home with electricity? How about propane? Oak Park needs to put up a couple hundred wind turbines and hope the wind blows constantly. Will residents love that?
The Oak Park board is typically comprised of well intentioned people dead certain of their opinions being Correct and The Only Way. Some time ago a trustee had the idea to market drinking water in paper containers. It was pointed out that while the outside of the container was a paper product, the liner was a plastic type material which rendered the container unrecycleable. Also, what is the carbon footprint point of trucking drinking water 800 miles by diesel truck in unrecycleable containers. Sounded good, on paper. In reality, not so much. It will be interesting to see whether this… Read more »
Electricity is alot more costly than natural gas so why would anyone want this to happen. Coupled with an aging overused power grid it’s a recipe for disaster. Someone in Oak Park is related to Mike Madigan
Harmon lives there…