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.
I read this article’s headline in the Sunday Tribune as I lined the bottom of my parakeet’s cage with the paper. I’ve trained the bird to look down and say “BS” whenever I ask it, “What’s in the news, Governor?”. Guests think it’s hilarious!
There’s that poor illegal dem slanted story by a rag whose journalistic creditability is zilch .
They are not immigrants. They are illegals. Their temporary protective status has ended.
Their legal path seemed to be to break into the US first, and ask for forgiveness later. There certainly is an argument that Biden wasn’t even aware of what day it was, let alone what was going on with those work permits. Even more amazing is how they can barely speak english, yet illegals know that they want a lawyer – as if they are an actual US citizen or here under valid credentials. Hopefully the decrease in the crime rate after this makes the news – as well as a huge thank you to the men and women trying… Read more »
This article is hogwash. Biden issued work permits to Venezuelans who entered illegally, and granted them temporary protection from deportation. They still entered illegally (aside from a few who entered under a small sponsorship program). And as for asylum claims, almost all of them are bunk. Finally, anybody who entered illegally after Trump was first elected in 2018 knew the days of free entry were over.