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.
From law and order to mayhem and murder, brought to you by the progressive left.
Interesting article. After seeing all the police officers going to jail for just doing their job, who would want to take that risk? I sure wouldn’t and apparently few others do either. A bad interaction with a habitually violent criminal – like that taser case in MN recently – means the cop goes to jail and the criminal gets sainthood. Cops are now enforcing vaccine mandates and mask compliance on the general population and this alienates the few friends copy have left. That’s not good for a civil society with few good police officers, lots of crime and a lot… Read more »
Reducing crime has some similarities to reducing CO2 emissions. Both are theoretically possible, but neither is probable nor practicable. What has been described is a feedback loop of understandable lax enforcement catalyzed by prosecutorial indifference inevitably resulting in the loss of restraint by those whom civilization has not tamed. Together, now, as we all Slouch Towards Gomorrah.
Soon it will be only the bad guys applying to the police academy. Criminals with badges, brought to you in the name of “equity”.