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.
This article is nonsense and spin designed to give cover for the America LAST crowd–they LOVE their illegals. Mass deportation Now, Amnesty Never.
I don’t buy these numbers either, though support nationally for Trump on immigration has indeed slipped. This part makes no sense on its face about Cook County in suburbs: “3 in 5 say they’re dissatisfied with how the federal government has handled things, while 43% in the city and 57% in the suburbs rate the local response as satisfactory.”
One should always be wary of the statistical validity of these surveys. Without a statistically valid sample, you can have a survey support anything; e.g., 67 percent of those polled agreed the world is flat.
I don’t know whom Egghead Thinktank spoke to, but most of the people that I know aren’t in favor of illegals gobbling up social services like a herd of locusts. Let’s put sanctuary status up to a vote statewide and see the results.
The benefit to illegal immigrants in Chicago comes from walking down city streets and forgetting your still actually living in Illinois.