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.
If by “rightward movement” she meant “correct movement” I would wholeheartedly agree with her…
But I know she meant it in a derogatory way…
About the only plus to this article is her readers have to be hyperventilating over all the horrible things she mentioned.
I cancelled our Chicago Tribune Subscription 11 years ago (2012) and have never looked back. These people are a disgrace.
Funny how they bad mouth the sheriffs for not enforcing an unconstitutional law but they don’t go after the Soros backed States attorneys who won’t enforce the laws on the books.
This rightward movement is a natural reaction to the overall Leftward drift as far as just about everything else is concerned.
Yeah, I don’t read Trib articles, and certainly not ones with Rep. Kelly “Moloch Priestess”
Cassidy quoted in the article. Fortunately, the Trib has such little influence anymore, few bother to read these articles anyway.
What an appalling article, conflating what the sheriffs have done here with the wacky “constitutional sheriffs” thing and “Christian nationalism. “Just taking orders” is the mentality these authors apparently believe in. Sheriffs and all public officials have not just the right but the duty to refuse to enforce a law they reasonably believe is unconstitutional, unless and until courts say otherwise. And Kelly Cassidy has the sheriffs’ oath exactly wrong. It says they should uphold the constitution, not laws passed by the legislature. We wrote about this here: https://wirepoints.org/stop-saying-illinois-sheriffs-should-ignore-the-constitution-on-what-they-enforce-wirepoints/
The article sums up the liberal agenda, sheriffs bad, democrat tyrants good.