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.
The Tribune is as failed as the city itself; they go hand in hand.
I wonder how many of the woke-n-progressive glitterati who endlessly identify White people as racist and hateful have been cancelled by the Chicago Tribune?
It’s a “no one is allowed to say what lots of people really think” moment. Simple fact is that lots of folks belonging to a variety of ethnic/racial groups don’t like what much of Black culture has made of itself in our country. Failed families, failing students, pestilentially pervasive intergenerational poverty, criminality (much or most of it Black on Black), angry unending “victimhood”. All this inadequately mitigated by over half a century of Great Society guvmn’t interventions and, literally, trillions of taxpayer dollars. What we’re doing and how we’re talking about it isn’t working, and doing more of the same… Read more »
Excellent.
The video of Adams’ full comments is here: https://www.youtube.com/live/K6TnAn7qV1s?feature=share
He stuck his foot in his mouth big time.
It appears this was no slip. From the video is is clear he knew what he was going to say, and he surely must have anticipated the reaction.