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.
Hmm…….let’s add pagers to the list while we’re at it.
Wait a minute, some downstate judge said that we are all safer because of the SAFE-T Act, but this says that possession of a g…d… machine gun which is definitely NOT safe is not a detainable offense. which is it?
How is this possible? Machine guns have been outlawed for decades. In Illinois, most semi-automatic weapons are outlawed. The devices that can allow semi-automatic firearms to mimic the effect of a machine gun are outlawed in Illinois. Chicago has some of the strictest gun laws in the US. You cannot purchase class III weapons or devices in Illinois. Could it be that the denizens of your city don’t care what the law says? In neighboring states they allow Class III sales. It’s just that people in those states don’t generally use them on each other. What is it about your… Read more »