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.
But if the city doesn’t own it, it won’t be socialist! Can’t have that (plus can’t then staff it with Johnson stooges).
Just more money laundering of taxpayers money. Going after the EBT money now! Probably have a cashiers window like at a pawn shop behind glass.
I was tempted to say that perhaps the city should assure the security of the store and let pros run the store. But then I remembered the city ties the hands of police and Kim Foxx won’t prosecute those who steal from the stores. So that approach wouldn’t work. Mayoral and aldermanic cronies will select which connected building owner will lease space for the stores and will make sure certain people, regardless of qualifications “run” these stores, which will have enormous skrinkage from theft subsidized by taxpayers. In short, patronage.