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.
Hmm, Crain’s may get the Captain Obvious in journalism award this year.
Exactly correct.
Sword of Damocles hanging over everyone in CHI/IL. Everyone knows it, and nothing substantive is done about it, unlike most other states. IL citizens taxed to the max, with everything going to public pensions, and still the risk of massive property tax hikes, for those “that can pay (eg “equity”)”, increases every second. IL politicians used to have CHI as their “checkmate”, so we had to “shut up and take it”, but MS Teams has something to say about that.
Nice that Crain’s is finally paying a little attention to the topic, even if it is still deficient. Where have they been that last fifteen years as this crisis has unfolded in plain sight year after year at both the City and the State?
Heads firmly up Obozo’s and Pritzker’s rear ends. With Pritzker it’s hard to tell which end is the rear though..