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.
In my 40 plus years of driving, I am trying to figure out how many tickets I have received.
Two village tickets 1) no village sticker, visiting parent soon after moving out, did not change address 2) expired state sticker got me in commuter parking lot, 1st of month, I bought sticker but procrastinated on putting on plate
Three speeding ticket, two in Illinois one in Ohio (speed trap)
I know a thing or two about traffic tickets. There’s a certain and not insignificant portion of the population, most of whom probably share the same race as Rep. Slaughter, that just don’t pay their moving violation tickets, just like they don’t pay their water bills, or pay their car insurance, or pay their parking tickets, or pay their child support, etc. This law is taking the consequences away from people who aren’t paying their bills anyway. You could give them 0 chances or 100 chances, and it doesn’t make any difference. Years ago I was in court with a… Read more »
Here’s an idea, don’t break the law. Or if you do, pay the ticket. Instead we hear more equity BS.
[Can’t seem to open the referenced article, but saw a similar report in the Sun Times]
I suspect the result will be that cops stop bothering to write tickets. Perhaps we will see accident rates rising, but there are other causes (such as heavier vehicles and increasing medical emergencies) that, unless good records are kept, could account for that.