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.
I hope this argument fails. While I feel bad for the children who suffer, the responsibility falls on two groups: 1. Primarily the gangbangers who shoot at each other; and 2. The negligent parents who choose to raise their children in a hostile environment. There are literally so many other places to raise children that are safer and cost the same or less than Austin *. But they instead choose to raise their children there. I know people that moved from Roseland – another violent neigbhorhood in Chicago – to Gary, IN because it was safer. That says a lot… Read more »
Just move. Move to a better place. You are right, and that’s not some right wing cold-hearted thing. Plenty of people on the left have started noticing that’s the key to upward mobility. Seattle has a program encouraging it as part of its housing policy.