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.
Corporate disinvestment caused this, per Mayor Johnson and Gov Pritzker. They don’t even blame the gun anymore.
It’s certain that more about what happened here will become available. Be interesting to read what’s said about it. Makes you wonder how common it’s become in Chicago for someone – often some pre-high school teenager – to just casually walk out of their home, or get out of their car, after having stuffed an illegally owned firearm in their waistband. I wouldn’t be surprised to learn for every 1 that results in something like this gunfight and murder, there are 50 that just haven’t turned into someone getting shot or robbed yet. Maybe a 100. Who knows? I think… Read more »
Suggest you watch YouTube video-interviews of Chicago gangbangers by CharlieBo313. Lotsa guns, everyone seems to have a gun stuffed down their waistband of their saggy pants.
Wonder how many of them have a FOID card stuffed in another pocket.
Not many, I suspect.
Not even worried about posting a video while they flash their illegal piece.
Why worry, nothing happens.
Yes, anyone who believes they can handle a weapon is armed, from pre-teen on up. at the most basic level, they are concealed carrying without proper training or licensing. This is a felony. Kim Foxx has a policy to not drop gun charges against her chosen people who get caught concealed carrying without a valid CCL. She says that the felony gun charges are non-violent, and the felony will follow the arrestee for life, so she drops charges to help protect their future. Which ironically, makes her the biggest proponent of getting rid of FOID cards and CCL licenses entirely,… Read more »