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.
Duncan regurgitates a lot of statistics, and says crime is down in Chicago. Who believes that? Who wants to be in Chicago for any reason, if they don’t have to?
I haven’t seen the pig fly yet.
It’s not working. Chicago just downgrading charges, not charging or reporting crimes, and looking the other way.
OK; good to hear. I guess that means we suburbanites can now go back to visiting Chicago without fear of being carjacked, mugged, or murdered. I’m already planning my long-overdue trip back with my family (LOL).
Woooooo now that is funny right there…”there is growing awareness”. Good God. Well, then, I guess we should waste another couple billion on this prOgram. But don’t forget to take the money for your Chicago Violence Intervention Program from tax payers in Peoria, Elizabeth and Effingham…
And what neighborhood does Arne live in ???
Arne needs to wake up and realize that the violence has only shifted to previously crime free areas. One never saw “ teen gatherings “ in Naperville, Glen Ellen or in the Loop at a Christmas parade a few years ago. Any suburban police department that has the stones to admit it will tell you about the recent influx of non- demonized youths making poor decisions in their communities.
Given the backgrounds of those they hire, are they preventing violence by intervention or intervening with violence? It remind me of the other jobs programs for otherwise unemployable CPS graduates, TSA airport screeners and EPA exhaust checkers.