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.
Word of advice: find a storefront in DuPage County, relocate your business – pronto.
Hub cap shops, nail salons and second hand furniture stores don’t get robbed quite as often as high end retailers. Things will be better when business adapts.
“We just got to hope that our city can do better” Will the police department become fully staffed and allowed to enforce the law? NO. Will the prosecutors actually prosecute and jail criminals? NO. Will the SAFE-T Act be repealed? NO. Will crime increase? YES Will city taxes keep going up and city services keep going down? YES. Will middle and upper class people continue to leave the city? YES. Will city finances continue to worsen? YES Will the elected officials become less corrupt? NO. Will the CTU continue to demolish the school system and fail all the students? YES.… Read more »
IMO, rename Chicago, “The City of Grifters and Corrupt Dems”.
I hope that all Illinois Dems are sent to re-education camps but I know it won’t happen.
Vote with your feet and leave the corrupt Dem controlled cesspool of a state I call Taxistan!!
Hope is not a strategy.
Things could always be worse!
And don’t worry, they will be!