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.
Well Detroit was a big city and at one time you could buy a “home” for $1.00!
There’s plenty of reasons why Chicago is so cheap. It’s a pretty crappy place to live for those without means: bad weather, violence, segregation, horrible schools, horrible politics, high taxes. Spouse today interviewed someone for a higher level job who seem interested in the work – but then dropped the bomb: “but I’m reluctant to come to Chicago”. My spouse just smiled knowing that there have been several shootings, murders and smash and grabs within .25 miles of the office, a co-worker in the interview had her vehicle broken into last week, and the office is more than half empty… Read more »
JB Pritzker sincerely believes, in his early stage obesity related dementia, that Illinois is a workers paradise full of weed, freedom from criminal prosecution, abortion and gambling on demand, and every other demented progressive idea scrubbed off twitter. However, the rest of the country see us as a basket case, and no one wants to deal with it, except for the Venezuelans who are overwhelming CPS.