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.
Reperations for what happened ages ago in Haiti? Not even in us—wow,
Nobody alive today was a slave. Nobody alive today was a slave-owner.
Need I say more?
And furthermore – the north banned slavery. Slavery was banned in Illinois. The Emancipation Proclamation was issued on 1/1/1863, and Evanston wasn’t even formally incorporated until 12/29/1863. There have never been slaves in Evanston, and in fact, free communities of african americans had been living in Evanston since 1840. Evanston may have been the most anti-slavery town in Illinois in the 1800’s. It’s absolutely absurd that 150 years after the end of the civil war, the most anti-slavery towns are now themselves PAYING REPARATIONS for the sins of others – southerners – thousands of miles away. It’s such an illogical… Read more »
Will this be the end of reparations, or, just the beginning?