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.
It’s pretty clear now that COVID-19 is just a severe outbreak of the flu. Certainly worse than a cold, but not a pandemic. It affects mainly the elderly, medically compromised and those with bad lung function. Most people will survive. The real concern with this virus is that it is extremely contagious and transmittable. It’s certainly more contagious than the office cold that everyone catches at least once. It’s in your water supply, your ventilation systems and on everything you touch, and it can survive over a week on wood or plastic surfaces. And if you happen to catch it… Read more »
I’ve been giving this idea some thought. What if Covid-19 virus somehow merges with Zika virus. If this continues into spring and maybe summer an infected person with Covid-19 gets bit by a mosquito with Zika and then transmitted to someone else. I would call this CovidZ-20. This could be like the Andromeda Strain or Outbreak. Just a thought.