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 the hospitals have to provide low income care so they stay exempt from property taxes? We see plenty of people in the ER and emergency clinics that don’t live in our neighborhood and we also have prisoners brought in to get treated at the hospital. Before they start dividing the cash it would be nice if he remembered that one “marginalized” convict escaped while getting a procedure done in a hospital in his district, ripping out his IV and beating and carjacking the elderly neighbor that lived across the street. Just wanted to send a shoutout to all the… Read more »
I have a hard time feeling sympathetic to his low income constituents. It is a cultural issue. Men impregnating women and abandoning the responsibility of fatherhood leads to rot.
And we are forced to support it.
IDK about luxury clinics LaShawn, but I see plenty of folks from the community without the means to buy a pack of gum in the waiting area of my doctors office that are going to receive medical care they surely aren’t paying for. Just saying.