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 northwest suburbs have traditionally been very conservative, only in recent times, though massive gerrymandering and get out the vote drives, has it turned more liberal. And by liberal, I mean whackjob progressive, not Biden democrat, but “hate has no home here” type of nutjobs. Interestingly enough, Highland Park (Which is not even a northwest suburb, it’s just north) is part of the NWMC, and that loonbag of a progressive mayor is against NWMC’s plan to decouple from Chicago. Those northern suburbs used to be Mark Kirk conservative but they’ve all done crazy left wing pink hat wearing moral authoritarians… Read more »
Mark Kirk was never conservative. He just pretended to be.
He still voted R most of the time. He voted against Obamacare.