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.
I’d like to kindly remind folks that Illinois was a free state. A Republican president from Illinois (who like DJT did not win with a plurality) issued a proclamation freeing all slaves, none of whom lived in Illinois. Illinois sent many union men to their death to free the slaves. Illinois did not have Jim Crow, nor did it have the KKK, or lynchings, or systemic racism separating the races. It really makes zero, yes zero, sense for a city like Evanston to talk about reparations.
The party of the same KKK, Jim Crow laws, Woodrow Wilson, and LBJ (vile racists both) seems far more obsessed with race than their opponents, whom they constantly accuse of racism. And people fall for it. Every…single…time.