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.
Slow violence? Not going to happen. Every year it is getting worse at a increasing rate. The criminals run the streets. The honest hard-working families are fleeing for their lives and family’s safety.
Shockingly with crime as #1 mayoral election issue non of the candidates are asking what happened to all the $100s of millions in fed covid aid that was spent on community ‘violence interrupters’. Why isn’t there a flood of ‘violence interrupters’ riding the cta, protecting retail, schools, etc??? Where has all the $ gone?? Nobody in press asks??
The violence interrupter programs were merely the conduit between the federal government and the car dealerships….
Incarceration works.
Indeed it does. Hard to victimize the public when you’re behinds bars.