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.
What’s really amazing to me is in order to break the Machine, people voted socialist instead of thinking about running a free market Republican candidate and voting Republican. Lori Lightfoot is not an out of the closet socialist, but close-Fritz K our new assessor is also a socialist…..let the fairness in Chicago begin.
I see it as a testament to how education has been replaced with indoctrination.
It starts with indoctrination; and it becomes amplified by hate and twitter. I’m telling you, these democratic socialists are all over twitter and they all scream as loud as they can and try to one up each other. Some of them actually get into office. They bring with them their crazy ideas of nationalizing the public utilities and charging progressive rates. At least with Fox News the viewpoints are curated and presented in a meaningful manner; they’re just trying to capture what viewers want to hear. Twitter is the exact opposite – the place is an echo chamber and the… Read more »
100% truth. Just 20 years ago, they would have been laughed out of town (yes, even Chicago). Coincidentally, 20 years is how long it’s been since the last time I visited. Can’t think of any reason why I’d ever consider it again at this point.
Governance via Twitter opinion will result in the crazies running the asylum.