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.
There were these videos over the summer of antifa, actual antifa, heading out to the suburbs of Seattle IIRC to harass the police chief at her summer home. However, they didn’t make it very far into the neighborhood because the residents armed themselves with AR-15’s and blocked the streets off. They wouldn’t let them through. The antifa freaks were screaming in the video “you just pointed your gun at me” and the residents didn’t say a word back. Just stood there with the AR-15’s pointed in their general direction. Anti screamed some bad words like “racists” or something but ultimately… Read more »
““Neither the Constitution, nor state law, impose a general duty upon police officers or other governmental officials to protect individual persons from harm — even when they know the harm will occur,” said Darren L. Hutchinson, a professor and associate dean at the University of Florida School of Law. “Police can watch someone attack you, refuse to intervene and not violate the Constitution.” The Supreme Court has repeatedly held that the government has only a duty to protect persons who are “in custody,” he pointed out.” Cases: DeShaney vs. Winnebago, Town of Castle Rock vs. Gonzales Government has no duty… Read more »