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.
We’re the two year olds mutual combatants?
Pacifier to pacifier combat.
Every single weekend in Chicago there’s, what? – 8 or 12 people shot – or is it 15 to 20?
I don’t think this gets better, no matter how many tax $’s are spent with ‘community agencies,’ unless the solution also includes more sworn law enforcement, and courts that don’t pretty much turn anyone loose for having been accused or convicted of almost anything.
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Side note on yesterday’s 10 homicides: In our 10+ years of daily tallying, there have been only 3 (now 4) days that have recorded 10 or more homicides: 6/27/20: 10 killed 7/4/20: 11 killed 5/31/20: 18 killed
12:38 PM · May 28, 2023
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https://twitter.com/w_h_thompson/status/1662876105471082504?cxt=HHwWkIC2wb7A3JMuAAAA
I wonder, are the injured and the families of the dead consoled by that 9% drop in shootings?
Asking for a friend.