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.
“Is it because these children don’t look like children that are around you?”
Politicians have always been scum, and politician jokes have been around forever, so comments like this are not unexpected, but as much as I like Trump, his hyperbole unleashed a level of vitriol and nastiness unseen in american politics. Chuy just called the former director of ICE a racist who hates brown children. 10 years ago no politician would have crossed that line, but these days, every horrible accusation is routinely tossed out at the opposition.