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’ll say one more thing, that night was a night to remember. I hardly slept that night and I slept with my gun under my pillow.
Wait until these thugs start doing drive-bys in the loop, like the old Capone days. Should be great for Chicago’s tourism…
Curfews and gun controls work! let’s double down on these efforts!
In all seriousness though, the Chicago violence last weekend is a national, if not international, news story. That audio call is top news throughout the news media because it gives an insight into how bad things really are here. Now with the budget deficit, cratering revenues, pension problems, police problems, it’s not a job I think Lori ever thought she would deal with.
But let’s defund police!!!