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.
It’s mind boggling and disheartening that this country allowed massive, uncontrolled immigration to include violent criminals, drug dealers, and those with serious, contagious diseases.
Seems to be a lot of illegal alien supporters on this article. They give TD’s but do not have the courage of a rebuttal.
About time GOP does something on illegals in this state. In the past they have been MIA and thus have seen their party go to being a political eunuch.
Now we know why sanctuary cities/ states refuse to cooperate with ICE. They are showing them exactly what kind of people have slithered across the border and the progressives don’t want that.
The original purpose of sanctuary cities, as our former Mayor Washington enacted, was to allay the fears that illegal immigrants would face deportation if they came forward to help solve a crime. The city promised to shield illegal immigrants from deportation if they cooperated with police to solve crimes. This has been perverted with today’s sanctuary cities, which shield illegal immigrants from the consequences of their crimes. Few seem to remember that the late 1970’s and early 1980’s were a hyper-violent era in Chicago, with record murder rates that were 2x and 3x higher than during the 1960’s, with other… Read more »
=was to allay the fears that illegal immigrants would face deportation if they came forward to help solve a crime. The city promised to shield illegal immigrants from deportation if they cooperated with police to solve crimes. =
Yea, and that was always a ruse used by big city DEMS as an excuse for no deportation.
That sort of follows the logic of giving them driver’s licenses so they can buy car insurance insurance <rolls eyes here>