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.
Bravo to Utah professors disputing the current narrative on the effect of bail reform on crime stats. But these studies are looking in the wrong direction. Instead of evaluating how many commit more crime upon release, we should be studying how many violent crimes have been committed by those who have been previously arrested. It’s just anecdotal, but how many times do we hear that these criminals have rap sheets a mile long? It seems the majority of violent crime is committed by the same criminals, over and over again. That, of course, would be an indictment of prosecutors and… Read more »