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This Illinois bill could ban state and local governments from creating criminal charges against the basic needs of the unhoused. The plan would add to a previous bill, adding a new term called "life sustaining activities." These would be protected rights of the unhoused to sleep, lie down, eat, drink and hold personal belongings under shelter in public property.
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Audio and summary Why the Holdup Using Artificial Intelligence to Cut Illinois Government Costs? – Wirepoints
May 19, 2026
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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.
Note to readers from Mark Glennon re: Ukraine
May 6, 2026
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Everybody needs a side hustle these days, and mine is Ukraine, where I am now.
Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer – Chicago’s struggling commercial real estate and more
April 22, 2026
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Summary and audio linked here.
Democrats doing what they do best, destroying everything that they possible can. Let’s turn the state into a giant San Francisco with poop patrols cleaning sidewalks, hazardous waste teams picking up used needles on the streets, open air drug markets, open prostitution, drug addled zombies staggering around in front of school kids. A democratic utopia!
Excessive Taxation should be and IS a crime.
Yes, but what’s going to be the STABLE political definition as to what’s excessive? That seems to be a variable definition depending upon the politics of the time. What’s excessive to some isn’t to others even in a given moment and more so over longer stretches time.
Good question. I would start with having a percentage of property taxes to home value based on the average of most states. The number seems to be around 1% for most states. https://www.tax-rates.org/taxtables/property-tax-by-state https://taxfoundation.org/data/all/state/property-taxes-by-state-county-2024/ Second I would look for ways to institute a small county income tax to compensate a little. But the bottom line is there are way too many units of government each with their hands in my pocket via the value of my real estate. With other forms of taxation I at least have a choice on where to purchase necessities. I can purchase across the border… Read more »
I agree with your premise; let the state income tax carry more of the burden and set some sensible generally reduced limit as to the amount of property taxes owed. It has to be a more sensible combination of the two unless some other tax sources can play their part, too.
Premise her anything, but give her Arpege!
The left calculus is:
No rate is excessive, as long as somebody else pays and public union members (cough, cough, I mean the oppressed) get all the proceeds.
Vagrants used to be the correct term.
How much more stupidity can come out of Springfield my goodness.
Look how well this sort of thing worked out in SF, LA, Portland, Oakland etc. Tent cities blocking the sidewalks, used syringes lying around and people that have defecated upon themselves everywhere in a stupor. Yay!
Pure democrat utopia!! Third world shit here it comes, Hope the set up shop on the sidewalk in front of these braindead politicians homes then we’ll see how fast they get shuffled off to the “common folk”