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.
Trump is definitely stacking his cabinet with a bunch of “Lois Lerners” who won’t need any marching orders.
Assumes, without evidence, that the current Republican Party will Make America Great Again.
Not really. And a good case can be make that Congress has an affirmative obligation to fix things under the Guarantee Clause of the US Constitution. It requires Congress to act to assure a republican form of government in the states. It’s getting to the point where places like Chicago have no functioning government of any kind.
No, Brian, it doesn’t. It simply points out the dysfunction that current governance has brought. It makes no predictions on what could make it better. That is left for the reader to figure out. But the “without evidence” trope works well to deflect, doesn’t it? At least it has up till now.
You are correct. MAGA talks a great game, but let’s see if Trump can actually follow through this time. It looks like he’s trying to. Remember when John Podesta’s emails were leaked, and there was an email to Barack Obama read from a VIP at Citibank that said “here are the 15 members you need for your cabinet” and he chose, IIRC, 12 of them? Remember when the RNC told Trump “let us make all your cabinet recommendation with old school RINOs?” I remember those days. Trump’s not letting anyone, other than the senate confirming his choices, for his cabinet… Read more »
Republicans may not be the answer, but Democrat are for certain; the problem.
Let’s hope they can make America great again, because the current democratic party can’t make a bowel movement great. Unless, of course, you don’t want America to be great, which would be consistent with most demofilth.