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.
Don’t forget counties at the north end of the state. Check the most recent national election results – most of them align politically with their southern neighbors.
Single party rule is NEVER a good idea.
Actually, the Confederacy wasn’t a racist movement, but more a collective of Southerners that didn’t think they should be beholden to the North. They were doing business quite well with England, amongst other countries, and didn’t care for Yankees bossing them around. The average Confederate soldier was a poor farmer that didn’t even own slaves, but had enough gumption not to put up with Northern nonsense. Meanwhile in NY there were riots by those seeking to avoid military service. Slavery was one component of the Civil War, but far from the main one.
“The division of the United States into federations of equal force was decided long before the Civil War by the high financial powers of Europe. These bankers were afraid that the United States if they remained as one block would attain economic and financial independence which would upset their financial domination over the world.” ~ Otto von Bismark “Lincoln printed 400 million dollars worth of Greenbacks (the exact amount being $449,338,902), money that he delegated to be created, a debt-free and interest-free money to finance the War. It served as legal tender for all debts, public and private. He printed… Read more »