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.
why is it Cullerton’s office who in charge of releasing redacted search warrant?
Of course all the good stuff was redacted. It all points to Madigan.
Who’s next!
Even if all the unemployed lawyers were hired to prosecute political corruption, we’d still have a century’s worth of backlogged cases. It would be easier to find a virgin in a brothel than to find an honest man or woman in the Illinois State Capitol or in what I call the Pentagram-portal to hell itself, a place that includes the Thompson State of IL building, the Dirksen Federal building and Chicago City Hall. H.L. Mencken said, “Democracy is the system where the common man gets what he deserves, and he obviously deserves to get it good and hard.” We get… Read more »
“We deserve what’s coming, sadly. Complacency sets us up for unimaginable hardship.”
Don’t blame ‘we’. I didn’t vote for these losers. The last time ‘my guy’ won a state office was in 2014 with Rauner.
There are plenty of states and places with well run democracies. My local suburban municipality is decently run.