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.
I always wonder — do progressives become dim bulbs, or do dim bulbs become progressives?
Chicken or the egg paradox, I guess.
I’ve read that there’s a link between neurosis and socialism. Those who worry they can’t take care of themselves want the govt to do it for them.
Socialism was easy to apply in early 20th century Europe after WWI because the capital of the aristocracy was right there for everyone to see: the lorded gentry had large estate, he owned all the real estate in town, he or she had business enterprises everywhere. Like the Downton Abbey model, the government could just come in and tax the heck out of it. The wealth of today’s oligarchy – which without a doubt hoards so much money it actually affects the economy – isn’t in plain sight, and the owners are often distant. I gave the example the other… Read more »
And at the same time, those same demsocs are the useful idiots of those who are pushing for even more of that globalization. The modern world is a Tom Clancy novel come to life
““Working class Chicagoans need a budget that taxes the rich and powerful corporations to pay their fair share,” ”
Translation:
Let’s help out the vacant suburban office parks by forcing business out of Chicago. So many office parks need tenants, in Rosemont, along I-94, along I-88, Oak Brook, Schumburg, Tinley!!!
Yes, progressives, cut police funding. These people obviously don’t have to live in the already crime-ridden neighborhoods which this would most negatively affect. This is why the rest of the state trats Chicago with such scorn, not that they’d care…