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.
Hope the left wing crazies show up and destroy the DNC.
There is a big difference between 1968 and now. Then many if not most were protesting the Vietnam war and being drafted and now people are protesting the war between Israel and Palestine but this time NOT one of the protesters are being drafted to fight in either side.
It all depends if the antifa people show up. And if the antifa people show up and cause mayhem, as I like to say, then criminality will fill the void, and the peasant underclasses will begin looting downtown again. During the St. Floyd riots, there were some ‘peaceful’ protesters such as the suburban or north side AWFL’s who truly believed in ‘the cause.’ After the march, the antifa people were waiting to LARP combat police with their garbage can shields and homemade weapons and such. As the mayhem ensued, the underclasses began the looting and rioting. I’ve heard chatter from… Read more »
I remind the readership here, with 2020 fresh in the minds of the CPD, here’s to staying fetal.
1968 Democratic National Convention – Wikipedia In its report Rights in Conflict (better known as the Walker Report), the Chicago Study Team that investigated the violent clashes between police and protesters at the convention stated that the police response was characterized by: unrestrained and indiscriminate police violence on many occasions, particularly at night. That violence was made all the more shocking by the fact that it was often inflicted upon persons who had broken no law, disobeyed no order, made no threat. These included peaceful demonstrators, onlookers, and large numbers of residents who were simply passing through, or happened to live in, the… Read more »
It was politically acceptable back then to punch a hippie.
BALONEY I was here……police were allowed to protect the people back then unlike now and the criminals were put in jail not law abiding people for protecting themselve against criminals
MY era. Remember it well. Yes, peaceful protesters were beat up. But there was a lot of violence toward property and the cops. That is what the radicals do. They mix it up and the ‘peaceful protesters’ get in the crossfire. Just a reality check.