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.
The continued incompetence of the political animals collecting paychecks and pension from the CTA while pretending to run the organization aside, this program’s untenable price tag alone renders it a nonstarter. The elephant in the room is that it would be far cheaper to create a dedicated paratransit operation for taxpayers who cannot access the other public transit options offered by the RTA/CTA/Metra/Pace monopolies. You can buy a lot of equipment for and pay for staffing of this operation for $4.9 Billion. This is what would be called a reasonable accommodation. Yes, such an operation would have the usual ‘friends… Read more »