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’ve always believed that lifeblood of Chicago is the pipeline of Big 10 grads (and other selective colleges) to corporate jobs in Chicago. These residents fill the office towers downtown, they frequent the restaurants, they pay nearly all of the taxes, they make the civic donations and they commit to raising their family in Illinois. They create the jobs that hire the locals. Chicago cannot sustain itself at its current level without this pipeline. This is what makes Chicago the capital of the midwest. Chicago will still exist without this pipeline, but it’s Chicago, and other cities will benefit from… Read more »
The Public Unions have put the Chitty on a path of destruction. No looking back now, disaster is cast in stone.
Illinois Dems and Public Unions have put the Chitty on a path of fiscal destruction.