Totaling the unsustainable tax increases and windfall revenue during Pritzker Administration – Wirepoints
May 26, 2026
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With $162 billion more from taxpayers, couldn’t you deliver a few bond upgrades, too
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A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
One of the upshots of the DNC riots of 1968 was the Walker Report, in which Dan Walker claimed there was a “police riot.” Of course, he had political aspirations and needed to make a splash, which he did, and parlayed his fame into the governorship a few years later by being the maverick taking on the Daley machine. Like many Illinois governors, he ended up in prison. In Illinois politics, the question is always cui bono, who benefits? There will be an anointed beneficiary of events no matter what happens at the Dem convention. The pliant Chicago media will… Read more »
Right. It wont be 1968. Instead the looters and vandals will be in charge with BJ cheering them on. “Mayor Lori Lightfoot made the final call to raise downtown bridges, use pepper spray, enact a citywide curfew, and call in the National Guard during the 2020 protests.” None of that will happen in August because the deeply racist BJ believes in “fiery mostly peaceful protest” and sees looting as reparations. All property owners need to have their 2nd Amendment protections ready because CPD wont be available or using theirs.
Even tho it was crazy back then……..the mayor and police made you feel safe unlike now……..only BJ can be safe………h$ll with the people he’s the only one that counts……NOT