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.
Some of those lead pipes supply water to the residences of Leftist Democrats with inherited wealth. How rich.
Bridgeport will probably get fixed first, if it isn’t already.
Yeah metals and metalloids can wreak havoc on the brain. Eat your salad folks.
There is mounting evidence that lead levels in humans and crime work hand in hand. Many who live in inner cities are more exposed to lead such as paint/pipes/etc since they tend to live in older homes. Fluoride is also known to leach lead out out pipes but is put into the water supply to reduce dental caries but instead causes more dental fluorosis. More info at http://www.fluoridealert.org. If I were in charge I would test people in prison for heavy metal toxicity which is only a hair or fingernail sample. This in part if testing positive for lead or… Read more »
Lori, it never is your fault is it? Perhaps someday instead of finger pointing you might instead direct your efforts towards finding a solution instead of the continued playing of the blame game.
is Groot capable of taking responsibility for anything?
At least through the 1960s city water mains were made of cast iron and tapping them for residential or commercial services required the use of melted lead to seal the joints and flexible lead piping to connect the main to the service. In more recent years PVC mains have come into use and the techniques for connecting the main to the service involve plastic materials and sealers. Am not sure if the cast iron mains can be connected to residential services with plastics. Replacing lead piping may or may not involve replacing the old cast iron mains in the older… Read more »