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.
I don’t understand how CVS and Walgreens are responsible when the company Purdue was making false claims about the degree of addiction which was close to zero according to their sales reps. Did Walgreens get the same info as the doctors did? Pharmacists cannot prescribe drugs only advise patients on how to take the RX. If the pamphlet says OxyContin is not addictive that’s all the pharmacist can say. Why not also hold them responsible for all the side effects known and unknown for all the other drugs? They are complicit with giving out the vaccines but what they know… Read more »
No one accused CVS or Walgreens of making false claims. The argument is that pharmacies should have noticed when opioid Rxs were being filled with ever increasing volume. In some parts of the country, pharmacies were filling so many Rx’s that it didn’t match the total population of the customers that they served. They were accused of turning a blind eye when they clearly knew the volume was off. While I don’t think they should have been held responsible, the pharmacies were clearly worried this wouldn’t paint them in a good light. Think of it as a guy that sells… Read more »