Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer: Spencer Pratt in Los Angeles Mayoral Race Offers Chicago a Blueprint
June 4, 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.
This is a really well written article. I hope it gets a lot of attention.
It is too late – really it is. About the only way you can revitalize Illinois is to pass constitutional amendments that guarantee property taxes will not exceed x percent of home value and income taxes and sales taxes cannot exceed some set percentage. Of course that would mean the pensions would not get paid. The issue is simple, you would have to be mentally retarded to want to live in Illinois given the uncertainty regarding your assets. Illinois is no longer a place any sane, aware person would set down roots. It could make a stop for the transient… Read more »
Unless you can swap out the underclass they’ve imported in to replace the middle class that has left for greener pastures it is certainly too late. They have wedded this underclass and they aren’t going back on that. The state will follow them down the sewer. I doubt the neighboring states would be generous enough to take them off Illinois’ hands.