Totaling the unsustainable tax increases and windfall revenue during Pritzker Administration – Wirepoints
May 26, 2026
10 Comments
With $162 billion more from taxpayers, couldn’t you deliver a few bond upgrades, too
-- Connecting the dots between our economy, government and business --
Audio and summary 
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 day of reckoning is approaching for Chicago and IL. Each day we are one step closer to a long and deep economic recession. There are so many black clouds on the horizon that our state’s politicians are blissfully ignoring, because they are economic illiterate. The CRE crash is well underway, and is getting crushed. So few CRE office buildings are being sold or refinanced that it’s a huge deal, and reported in the news, when even one building changes hands. The real estate property market has frozen, it’s basically frozen, with 2023 being worse than 2008, which at the… Read more »
Everytime this guy opens his mouth something stupid comes out. A city that has a gigantic budget hole and massively under-funded pensions is going to hand out money.
BJ puts another $.5 million to his Black constituency. Why not contribute those monies to the “racist” parking ticket problem?
Many Union soldiers from Illinois, from Chicago, died during Civil War. Many confederate soldiers died at south-side Camp Douglas prisoner camp. Travesty for BJ to promote “reparations”, a dishonor to those Union soldiers who paid with their lives.
In addition to reparations to anyone claiming that 150+ years ago a relative was a slave, Johnson wants to “expand the assistance available to formerly incarcerated Chicagoans”. 1) no one deserves reparations, 2) if the city is going to expand assistance for anyone, it should be for victims of crime, not the perpetrators.
Please subtract the cost of any city wide smash and grab looting from my share of any reparations!
Next up reparations for the immigrants and why not? The blacks similarly were immigrants to Illinois once too.