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.
We should also be calling out the Republican Leadership at the County Levels. For instance, Jim Zay in Dupage County as been lackluster at best. He is for the most part, Democrat Light and did not take the Dem’s to task and call out their record for the past several years. There is plenty of blame go around.
The Illinois Republican Party needs a new fresh face with stature– a superstar– to revitalize the entire organization. In the past fifty years new faces have jumped into Republican politics and made a difference. Chuck Percy parachuted in to the US Senate straight from Bell and Howell. Jim Thompson came straight out of the US Attorney’s office. Just like Dick Phelan came out of nowhere on the Dem side. The Republican farm system has a bunch of uninspiring, boring plodders. I don’t know who that Republican is, but without a superstar like that the Republican Party is an afterthought.
Jim Thompson. Good man. Gave us 3% compounding increases for each and every year on our pensions.
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Earlier this month, JB harvested 2.2 million votes to Bailey’s 1.7 million voters mostly showing up on election day. In 2020, the IL Dems harvested almost 3.5 million votes to Republicans meager 2.46 million, and that was the most since Reagan in 1984. The IL Republican’s republican party’s problem isn’t a lack of fresh faces. IL Dems wouldn’t vote for Barack Obama for Gov. even if he switched parties and became a Republican. The problem is the grip on the electoral process they have in blue counties. After they manage to flip a county from red to blue, they cheat… Read more »