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 trend may be positive, but only because it couldn’t get any worse. If occupancy is 30-40%, and that’s worth celebrating, the future is not bright. I know of no business that expects to bring all their staff back downtown. Both staff and the businesses they work for learned a lot during Covid. It will never get back to what it was.
My spouse is required to go downtown once a week to the office. Last week, she said she went into the break room without a mask, and some other double masked freak already in the breakroom looked at her in horror, cowering and holding his arms to his chest, and ran out into the hallway. He apparently stood there in the hallway glaring at her 90 second while my spouse reheated her food, just staring at her, not saying a word, until she left the break room, and only then did he feel safe to go back in. Every funnier,… Read more »