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"Leaving most of the largest and fastest-growing segment of the economy out of the sales tax base means the revenue it generates can’t grow as the economy expands. Of course, the cost of providing public services does. To fix that shortcoming, Illinois’ sales tax should be applied to the purchase of consumer services, as in neighboring Iowa and Wisconsin."
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Audio and summary Why the Holdup Using Artificial Intelligence to Cut Illinois Government Costs? – Wirepoints
May 19, 2026
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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.
Note to readers from Mark Glennon re: Ukraine
May 6, 2026
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Everybody needs a side hustle these days, and mine is Ukraine, where I am now.
Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer – Chicago’s struggling commercial real estate and more
April 22, 2026
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Summary and audio linked here.
Wreck it Ralph revisitng his worn out old idea of taxing services. It’s a regressive tax Ralph and I thought you mental disordered liberal progressives frowned upon that, hence you ilk’s push for progressive taxes.
Classic moron. This guy has to be an Illinois Democrat
Same BS, different day from Ralph. He has quite a lucrative union financed racket going for himself.
Another example of a regressive tax on the working people of Illinois. Didn’t Pritzker pledge not to enact regressive taxes? First he doubles the gasoline tax and now he’s going to tax services? Well, he lied about fair maps and income tax relief too, so at least he’s consistent.
No mention of pension dollars gobbling up a quarter of the state’s budget…only “core services”
Ralphie is back with his same old song of ‘tax the schite out of the chumbolones’. This time he wants to wreck the service sector to pay for his pals’ profligate spending. As if there weren’t plenty of reasons to relocate to saner climes.
Ralphie, Illinois is broke not from insufficient revenue. It’s from excessive spending plus borrowing to make interest payments on amounts previously lent to them. Can we see which of the public sector unions funds your operation? All of them, we suspect.
#GetLostRalphie