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.
A long terrifyingly fascinating read. Unfortunately, I disagree with the writer that despite his spotlight here, this systemic canard is still very much inbred in our society.
Yes, this rot is still *very* deeply embedded in the “Deep State”, MSM, academia, business, entertainment… it will take much effort to snuff out, and still it will be around. For example, despite the end of and total failure of USSR – style communism/socialism, almost 40 years later “leftism” is still a dearly – held belief by at least half of the US population… and more worldwide… today it’s cunningly called “liberalism” or “progressivism”…
Obama will go down as one of the great charlatans of the 21st Century.
Most excellent…!!!: “As for Barack Obama, I will admit that I wasn’t sure I’d ever see him face the consequences of his own arrogance, obsession with personal power, and efforts at vanquishing the exceptionalism that makes this country different from every other one. But I guess, as a wise man once explained: “Life’s a bitch…”
If Axelrod is the subject, insight to his workings can be gained by viewing the ad making the rounds on You Tube touching upon his cozy relationship with Jan Shankowsky’s convicted and jailed husband.