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.
It’s more like they know the recidivism rate is high, they just don’t want to confirm it….because all these liberal rehab programs are supposed to reduce crime and are not.
IL doesn’t want recidivism rates published. The rates will prove cashless bail and the Safe T act are total failures. IL is too stupid to realize that without consequences for criminal activity, crime will continue to escalate and law abiding citizens are held hostage by criminals. But we all know that Democrats put criminals above law abiding citizens. Maybe force CPS and CTU to actually educate students so they will have other options other than a life o crime as adults.
Why can’t we sleuth through federal, state, and private stats? A ballpark figure would shift the burden of proof to them.
In 2016, Illinois saw 71,551 new convictions; of those, 70,610, or 89 percent, were reoffenders headed back to prison.”
https://www.prisonlegalnews.org/news/2019/feb/5/illinois-calculates-high-costs-recidivism/
IL and its thousands of entities can’t seem to do anything that might give the taxpayers a glimpse into what is actually going on around here. Any bets the glitch in tax bills is awaiting a CTU benefitting tax increase? That is what the whole lack of JB’s “transparency” he tooted his horn on Face the Nation is about.
The “programming issue” is the Safe-T Act. They don’t want to compare recidivism rates before and after implementation. But refusing to let former criminals get help to steer them away from further criminal activity is undeniably stupid.
As a former Illinois official, I tried very hard to track outcomes in many state programs. Surprise! The pushback was so immense some departments opted to refuse funding rather than evaluate the outcomes of their programs. I quickly found out that government is about the process, not results. And I also discovered that Illinois is corrupt to the core.
Hmmm….”Can’t” or “Won’t”.
No wrong, no computer programming issues IDOC you were told not to compute the annual report by whom, let me see Pritzker, na couldn’t be could it.
Really, this is a computer programming issue? This is critical and important data that helps establish practices and protocols to reduce crime and return individuals to society with tools to navigate their lives. This data certainly must be available using other data storage methods.
When they don’t want to know it’s easy to find a way.
Many people could figure this out with an Excel spreadsheet.
I have to agree that this would be a complicated issue. They’d have to look nationwide to see whether the reoffense happened elsewhere. They’d have to account for name changes or aliases. They’d have to define exactly what “reoffense” means.
But it certainly could be done. Even by one of those well-funded university research centers.