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.
Let’s face it. Let them keep the money. It will just be misspent or put in some dem donors pocket anyway
The red line extension losing the funding is good. Mass transit is a money pit that only benefits the army of overpaid bureaucrats, consultants and attorneys on the payroll. Sure some serfs get cheap rides but even they are abandoning the system as a thirty per cent decrease in ridership indicates. I fully expect to hear Jabba the Gov. whining about all the lost jobs because of DJT.
If this derails the CTA’s ill-advised Red Line extension boondoggle, it could up saving CTA billions that could be better spent elsewhere.
If Putzger continues with his ravings on the Pres.
then I believe we should look into the massive
funds for O’Hare, put a real hurting on the
” Toilet Bowl King”