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.
County-level prosecutors could theoretically organize and bargain to rescind some provisions in the SAFE-T Act under “other terms and conditions of employment.” All it takes is two creative attorneys to set the ball in motion.
Hope Amendment One bites them on the backside!
I’ve been saying this for months. Any part of the SAFE-T Act that can be classified as working conditions or endangers the economic welfare and safety at work is fair game. There’s an entire sub-section of the SAFE-T Act that covers employee-related things. I would fully expect downstate police forces to negotiate those things back. Expect sympathetic governmental units to comply as it costs them nothing. In a few years the SAFE-T Act is going to be piecemeal legislation with different rules and enforcement based on what the counties and munis negotiated. But law enforcement is interpreting a recent amendment… Read more »
It would be classic if Democrats’ union payoff ballot measure blows up their soft on crime agenda