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.
Easy way to defund the police department. Anybody think that crime is out of control? Get serious about Covid vaccinations, fire 3000 cops and then watch the crap show.
The covid vax mandates, the forced overtime, cancellation of days off, 12 hour shifts all summer long, COPA constantly looking over your shoulder, a community that hates you, and a new academy class so small they could fit in to a mcdonalds (and most are likely defund the police ideologues themselves)….that’s how you defund the police without actually defunding the police. And she’s trying to handle the political fallout from the massive crime increases by blaming Foxx, for which she rightly deserves much of the blame.