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.
Maybe Moweaqua taxpayers cannot afford the protection the police department wants to give them? It is a farm town in Central Illinois. Low crime risk to begin with.
Sounds like a good place to start a citizen’s crime prevention program and have protection that isn’t encumbered with also have to be social workers, medics and mental health counselors. A task force that can hold criminals until the county bulls get there and lets it be known that the town isn’t defenseless could be a very, very good thing.
Support first responders, but a story like this should be part of a broader conversation. One that begins with the question, does every adjoining town all need state of the art facilities, new squad cars every few years, fire engines, and a high paid chief servicing his or her pension at the end of their careers etc.? Can’t speak to Moweaqua, but I’d like to think there are some definite tax savings that could be had by consolidating nearby departments and it wouldn’t even necessarily have to involve layoffs. Just mho.