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.
Blah, blah, blah. More, more, more. Gimme, gimme, gimme. The same song for decades with no positive results. How about parental supervision, how about fathers that care, how about keeping the community clean, how about going to school, how about actually being students, how about being responsible, how about not blaming White people for all the problems.
Yeah, that’s not going to happen.
None of this is going to happen, nothing but a pipe dream. Taxes are going to the moon; overly generous pensions must be funded by today’s contributions. Services are going to be cut severely as the pensions must be funded. Crime is only going to get worse, much worse. The honest families are fleeing leaving only criminals. The CPS teaches Zero job skills but being a criminal. The future has been set up for the last 10 years of decline. Now there is little hope for Chicago. The Pension time bomb is exploding and going to grow expediently. Paid for… Read more »