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.
That is toxic contaminated soil from over 100 years of steel mill activity. Think heavy metals.
Anyone who lived in South Chicago back then knew that there were soot particles everywhere.
I guarantee you none of the no-nothings in that photo have any idea of what that neighborhood was like when the smokestacks were belching out pollution.
There are some first-ballot, Hall of Fame public sector heroes in that photo.
I had to think of the right caption for the picture, and then I had it:
Pirates Burying Their Loot
This will have an economic boom for South Chicago just like Kennedy-King and Whole Foods did for Englewood.
/sarcasm
An investment deftly picked from the pockets of IL taxpayers. Any bets America’s Worst Governor didn’t have an ounce of dirt in his shovel? He looks like he’s ready to stroke out in the picture as it is.
And where in the world would this bankrupt state find another 500 million?
With JB involved probably going to be named “East China”