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.
Ms. Lightfoot has been in her office for nearly four years and NOW, when she’s up for re-election she finally sponsors something for victims.
Too little, too late, Ms. Mayor.
Chicago should focus more on reducing violent crime; then, it wouldn’t need to shell out as much of this money.
I have occasionally wondered about the livelihoods of South and West side funeral directors. On one hand there is a steady supply of non-natural death customers. Been at least 700 per year for decades. Lots of work and they have no problem getting it. On the other hand I’m not sure that gang bangers and their victims are a profit center. Seems like not paying for a service rendered or anything else forbthat matter is part and parcel of a gang bangers MO. Their victims or their families are not always people of means. I’ll bet the better class of… Read more »
They will figure out a way to profit from this. Get a small flesh wound from a gun and it’s a quick $1,000 bucks. Do that once a week and in a year you’ll have $52K. Maybe some pension pickup to boot.. Free healthcare at the local ER