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.
Pay twice for police protection? Seems like something is wrong with this picture.
Says a lot about the cops, they produce the same results as the teachers, dismal at best.
Actually as an alternative a visit to downtown Mogadishu would be safer.
That area is scary at night — wouldn’t want to be coming home after dark
Hmm, I thought my property taxes paid for law enforcement. Where’d that money go?
We’re moving a to a Third World “two – tier” law enforcement “milieu”, Old Joe…
Like in Mexico or Nigeria or Brazil or Haiti, the wealthy folks can “buy” their own private security, and the rest of us poor besieged mopes will have to make do with a greatly – diminished law enforcement “presence”…
They’ll have to pay local thug for protection, and those thugs themselves will be under the protection of the police. Big City police forces are having a difficult time recruiting good cops, soon enough, only the corrupt ones will remain.
Yep, I wanna make Bowmanville a gated community.