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 City of Seattle is desperately seeking new police officers to fill the depleted ranks of the PD. Down to under 1000 officers the mayor said that police cannot respond to many calls for service and are unable to provide patrol coverage. Chicago police could not respond to over 400,000 911 calls in 2021, retirements are at record levels, resignations as well. Nobody is taking the entrance exams. Chicago will soon be in the same predicament. As usual, the voters are responsible for the mess they created by electing unqualified and unfit candidates, hence the problem.
how is that social justice working Chicago? Voters are to blame but don’t call the politicians unfit, they are doing exactly what they intended to do. The results are features not a bug.
And that she should
Meanwhile Larry Lightfoot is eating a snail (“escargot”) in Paris.
If you are having trouble telling the difference, the snail is the pretty one.