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.
While I feel sympathy for CPD officers, my sympathy is not very deep. These officers have voluntarily chosen to make their career with the Chicago Police Dept knowing full well that the crazy people have been in charge for quite some time. Yet they stayed when dozens if not scores of suburban police departments are also hiring. There have been red flags for years telling them to Get Out Now! Finally, the chickens have come home to roost, so to speak, and years of committing their life and career to an awful police department have come back to haunt them.… Read more »