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 anti gun crowd runs on emotion but very little intelligence. Their rhetoric just drives more gun sales, which are at record breaking levels the last few years. Is that really what they want? Admittedly the defund the police move has also driven additional gun sales, but when you pound the podium after each mass shooting and vow to take away a constitutional right, people figure they better get one now before they can’t get one at all.
And IL residents purchased more guns than any other state during 2020 and 2021, and seems to be leading again in 2022, by a healthy margin. Not guns per capita but just raw number of guns. This is a direct result of the policies of the government of IL putting the fear of god into it’s citizens. The tooth paste is out of the tube now and it’s never going back in. The lake county state’s attorney is out of his mind if he thinks he can ban the AR-15 given that the gun is now everywhere in IL.
I am from Highland Park and this tragedy hits me deeply. What disturbs me is that the existing laws on the books were not enforced. If there ever was a red flag candidate, this guy was it. Just passing laws doesn’t cut it – there has to be a culture and a will to enforce them. A University of Michigan student who knew the perp well throughout her school years said she was in no way surprised this guy was the shooter. She also cautiously but succinctly stated her friends to her knowledge felt the same way.
Exactly, the laws are not being enforced we do not need more laws we need ENFORCEMENT