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.
Trib still doesn’t realize that neither Mayor BJ nor his administration reads its paper, much less its editorials. Go woke, go broke.
Debstor’s post is entirely correct. Mayor BJ thinks he’s meeting his goals.
Target is closing some store due to theft. It never ends. It will happen in Chicago.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/target-closes-nine-stores-due-134925795.html
Mayor Johnson is an enabler. He downplays the harm caused by thieves, carjackers, and murderers. He uses the “blame trauma” narrative–we are supposed to feel pity for a criminal who points a gun at a pregnant woman or for mobs who loot and destroy. Meanwhile, there are no consequences for serious offenses–criminals don’t have to be held accountable for their lawlessness. As one reporter put it, Johnson is already failing as mayor and does not even pretend to care about the crime in Chicago. Our courts oppose the righteous, and justice is nowhere to be found. Truth stumbles in the… Read more »
Mayor Johnson is not failing. He’s not enabling crime. He’s succeeding beyond his voters’ wildest imaginations. He’s ending mass incarceration of black folk, he’s reducing penalties in a criminal justice system that disproportionately punishes black people, and he’s told the police to just let black folk live their lives, without the fear of being shot, killed, arrested or framed by corrupt racist police. He doesn’t care what Vallas voters think about crime. And if crime is up, well, that’s just the price his voters are willing to pay to revolutionize policing and the criminal justice system. And if you, Vallas… Read more »