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.
Meanwhile voters: “Thank you sir. May we have another?”
Things came to a head when Democrats abdicated their duty on behalf of St. George Floyd. Once that genie was out of the bottle it’s hard to get it back in. See Detroit for the ghost of Xmas future.
Reginald Dwayne Betts, a 16 year old honor student in Prince Georges County (he was enrolled in AP Physics and had designs on Georgia Tech) committed a carjacking in Alexandria Virginia. He was tried and sentenced as an adult, with the judge commenting that prison – he served 7 years – was not perhaps the best thing for him but that he was bound by the law – sticking guns in innocent people’s faces is a serious thing. Mr. Betts, a very bright guy, navigated prison by virtue of his literacy and communication skills. While prison is a miserable place,… Read more »
If the average carjacker in Chicagoland spent 7 years in prison I’d cry.