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.
Retail theft is so prevalent because there is no punishment for committing it. Coordinate all you want, but the perpetrators know they’ll just walk.
If the Illinois Attorney General urged the County States’ Attorneys to prosecute these cases there would not be a problem.
This is good. Nice to see more than virtue signaling from our attorney general. Nice to have a Cook County states attorney willing to prosecute retail theft rather than treat it as just silly kids.
Right now all it is is virtue signaling from Raol. He talks about how he formed an Organized Retail Crime Task Force but that was 3 years ago, apparently with nothing to show. But I do applaud his efforts at doing something that sounds logical and anti-crime.