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.
The executive directors decided to cut out funding for the only people who truly are dependent on transit? More borderline criminal mismanagement from the political animals running the RTA/CTA/Metra/Pace into the ground.
This defies logic. One ride per day means you can go somewhere but you can’t get home? TAP and RAP are alternatives to other available paratransit services. They provide subsidized UBER and taxi rides for $2 per trip up to the maximum subsidy of $30 per trip. Amounts over that are paid by the rider. The other services appear to have fixed routes and require the rider to get from their home to the regular “stop” of the route. This would seem to eliminate neighborhood trips for groceries, doctor appointments, etc. The decrease from 8 rides per day is probably… Read more »
RTA was created to bail out CTA. Usual protocol- take from disabled and the suburbs to give to Chicago. Chicago should fund CTA, not everyone else. Chicago mismanaged CTA. Time to clean it up.