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.
If all this talk about reparations were to come true, I think it only fair that those who have been living off the government all these years ( in government I mean hard working taxpayers) back. They would be double dipping .
What a crock of crap! As a 65 year old man I can tell you that I was denied scholarships to college and was passed over for two government jobs because I was white. So much for “fairness and equity”. I experienced DEI discrimination before it was a thing!
Let’s see if we can get some reverse discrimination reparations money to come our way. I’m sure the far leftists in this state would support that.
Tired of the “racism” poster. People need to pursue education and demand quality education over indoctrination to improve their lives.
60 years of FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SUBSIDIES and they never improved themselves.
That’s right- let’s slap together some commission composed of professional crybaby activists and rewrite history to make IL as complicit as the Confederacy regarding slavery. Then they can get what they really want- money to ease their pain even though trillions have been spent trying to improve their lot since 1964. Tired of lazy grifters trying to “ raise your awareness of black people” yet? I am.
Pathetic. I thought we were done with the woke era. Probably less than 5% of the population of the state today has any ancestors who lived in Illinois between 1818 and 1865. And like the article says, black exclusion laws kept blacks of the state, meaning a minuscule of blacks today had ancestors who experienced this racism. This is nothing more than a grift to lay the groundwork for reparations. Well I want reparations too. I want for black on black crime and black on white crime. I want repayment of the trillions in welfare paid to the descendants of… Read more »