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.
Want a significant decrease in criminal behavior? Build more jails and keep them full. There done, that wast so hard. The only objections will come from the criminals. Anyone beefs, toss them in jail too!
There’s been all sorts of theories why crime dropped significantly everywhere since the 1990’s, from abortions, to removal of lead from gasoline and beyond; but it’s clear now that it was the crime bill – the get tough on crime that swept the nation in the 1990’s worked. And now that get tough on crime is considered inequitable, and is not being enforced, crime is predictably going up. Who woulda thunk that putting criminals in jail prevents jailed criminals from committing crimes while incarcerated!