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.
Some if the increase is attributable to incendiary language coming from Pritzker (take the Broadview 7 goofballs as one example), who is more interested in staking an anti Trump political posture to position himself for a presidential run that will fizzle. Trump is Trump, Pritzker should have taken the high road first, actively seeking to work with ICE to focus on criminals and provide state assistance for that very specific focus. Then, if ICE persisted in a wider net he could have withdrawn cooperation and could have established his credibility that way. As it is, he has established himself as… Read more »
People are sick of SJW activist holdovers appointed by Obama/ Biden circumventing law based on their feelings. The Latinx that let the repeat, criminally insane arsonist go is a perfect example of that. “ He was “acting in accordance with his mental illness “ was reportedly given as an excuse to be set free after trying to set a Federal building on fire.
But Chicago is so peaceful with some of the strictest gun laws in the nation, maybe these judges need a social worker.