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.
SECTION 16. EX POST FACTO LAWS AND IMPAIRING CONTRACTS No ex post facto law, or law impairing the obligation of contracts or making an irrevocable grant of special privileges or immunities, shall be passed. (Source: Illinois Constitution.)Good luck IL pensioners.
If this stands, you’re up next.
Sweet justice for us regular citizens.
Locke, it applies to criminal matters only.
If a contract was entered into privately by the landlord and tenant, then after the execution of said private contract the state stepped in, mitigating factors aside, changing the rules on payment (obligation) and ability to action an eviction, isn’t this an example of the state ‘impairing contracts?’ Also, this is section 16 of the IL Bill of Rights. Why would this only apply in criminal matters? In the US system, the Bill of Rights limits the powers of Government, as I recall from civics. Hence, this should be a limiting factor on the power of Government? Thanks in advance… Read more »
Does it really matter. They defecate on the bill of rights and constitution anyway.
Ooh kinky!
Looks like I have my very own troll. That’s how I know it’s working.