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.
The handful of comments in the articles linked in the Reader guide are very insightful. (The articles themselves are sophomoric drivel). The comments tear apart the author’s entire premise. Black people in Chicago have a very slightly higher use of force rate than white people in Chicago, but both rates are far below the national average for all races. Chicago cops use LESS force than they do nationally, despite a murder and shooting rate that is exponentially higher than other cities. Despite all the comments that point out the fallacies, myths and outright lies behind the author’s arguments, the… Read more »
There you (we) go again. Using facts and data to dispel what is clearly a flawed argument. Like many, there is only so much ignorance we (those of us who can think) can bear… The Land of Lincoln has been reduced to a sideshow act run by takers and the folks who gain power from their constituents – who have been persuaded victimhood is the conduit to realizing the American Dream… What empty tents like JB fail to realize is that the WFH reality established by the Corona virus empowers us to work from almost anywhere – those “almost… Read more »