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.
You know who the least “safest states” are according to the WalletHub survey: Florida(47), Texas(48), Mississippi(49) and Louisiana(50). Which begs the question, why is the federal government not thinking about sending in the national guard to make these states safer? Shreveport, La., Mike Johnson’s (speaker of the house) home town has a murder rate 60% higher than Chicago. It has a republican mayor and republican governor. Why aren’t they clamoring for the national guard be sent to Shreveport to make the city safer?
Chicago led in homicides.
2024 homicide rankings: Chicago, St. Louis lead nation yet again – A Wirepoints survey of America’s 75 largest cities | Wirepoints
The link you use does not have Shreveport in it’s dataset. The Wirepoints data used cities with a minimum population of about 300,000 people while Shreveport is around 190,000 people. The murder rate in Shreveport, per FBI statistics, is just under 27 per 100,000 while the Wirepoints data shows Chicago at 21.5 per 100,000. Hence, the murder rate in Shreveport is higher than Chicago’s.