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.
“Opioid-related deaths, police brutality and COVID-19 are all disproportionately killing black Americans, including in Chicago.”
Stop using opioids, stop committing crimes and lose some weight! Disproportionality solved!
Oh wait, that’s right, YOU are the racists, who say black people are too weak minded to quit using drugs at disproportional rates, and too stupid to stop committing a disproportionate amount of crimes, and too lazy to get and eat healthy. I’m not buying the ‘white people make me use drugs, commit crimes and get fat’ arguments. This makes THEM the racists.
This is one of the dumbest articles I have read in some time. They are literally throwing s*** against a wall to see what sticks. The article itself has no cohesiveness at all with the different topics brought up. Somehow the fact that AA’s do more drugs in cook county it is reflective of systemic racism? News flash to these “journalist” and I use that loosely. Check the opioid overdose death statistics in Appalachian states and you will see it is disproportionately killing whites in those neighborhoods. It is a NATIONAL problem.
Which makes it a good time for a reminder that we post articles from all sides, and by no means agree with all of them.
Very well stated. ?