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.
There was a time when the legal drinking age in Wisconsin, for all alcohol, was 18 and in Illinois, it was 19 for beer and wine. States should be allowed to set minimum age drinking laws as they see fit. The federal government basically made 21 the legal drinking age in all states during the Reagan administration by threatening to withhold highway funds from states that didn’t adhere to the 21 year old drinking age. I firmly believe the federal government should stay the hell out of a states business.
Illinois teens were driving to Wisconsin to drink during the 70’s when Illinois was 21 but Wisconsin was still 18. That didn’t last very long because it was universally accepted that every weekend was carnage on the roads with car loads of teens being killed in DUIs. While I am all for states rights in principle, it does create some bad effects. That being said, the kids these days aren’t drinking anywhere near as much as previous generations, for several reasons. The rise in legal cannabis means less drinking, and liquor is expensive, it’s $9-$10 for a craft beer at… Read more »
Cries of inequity and disenfranchisment soon to come from those who don’t know who their daddy is.
Why not? They can get abortions at a much younger age and change their genders with a quick snip here and a quick snip there.
Oh, good; another Illinois bill to encourage degeneracy. Let’s see; we have gambling, smoking weed, and drinking alcohol. Let’s get a bill going to encourage smoking cigarettes. On a serious note, how about a bill to help children read, write, and do math at grade level?
The family that drinks together pays more alcohol taxes to Illinois together.
That’s funny
Prostitution, oh wait now sec working is next