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 you’ve been following the squatter phenomenon in metro-Chicago for over the last DECADE or so, you’ll know 2 things: 1) the perpetrators of these crimes were blacks who seized vacant properties knowing that the civil court system was the only recourse for property owners to remove them, and that the delays and expenses inherent in that system afforded them a means by which they could (a) live for free for months and (b) potentially extort cash payments from exasperated property owners in return for vacating the property.; and 2) the victims of such crimes were seldom, if ever, black… Read more »