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.
And Tina Paden is upset because she thinks she is being told how the money can be spent? Welcome to the real world, honey. You’re lucky you’re getting a dime. Nobody alive today was ever a slave. Nobody alive today was a slave owner. So just exactly where is YOUR injury? In my view, the claims for compensation died with those people.
I’m not a religious man, but even our Bronze aged forefathers forbid today’s corrupted version social justice. Ezekiel 18:19-20 ESV: “Yet you say, ‘Why should not the son suffer for the iniquity of the father?’ When the son has done what is just and right, and has been careful to observe all my statutes, he shall surely live. The soul who sins shall die. The son shall not suffer for the iniquity of the father, nor the father suffer for the iniquity of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked… Read more »
I think they are being cheated. They should get money, housing and seats on the city council and a mayor. Do not sell out cheap. O and this should be part time work but full time money
The racists in Evanston are choosing between cash payments or housing as reparations? The victims of Evanston’s racism deserve both!!