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.
I would’ve asked Dick if he still supports leniency for the 9/11 terrorists and not releasing the manifest of flights to Epstein Island before hitting him with the undeserved pay increase thing.
Tricky Dick is hiding (covering) for his fellow politicians otherwise he would release the list.
Pretty rich of Durbin to give the reporter grief about CNN’s drastically shrinking viewership numbers. CNN has been nothing but a Democrat propaganda machine for decades. People don’t call it the Clinton News Network for nothing! The ratings are dropping like a rock because they feature Durbin and his fellow Dems non-stop. And also pretty interesting that old Dick didn’t even know about the pay raise that was included in the bill he would be voting on. Does he normally vote on bills without knowing what’s in them? He’s a disciple of the Pelosi principle I guess. What a worthless… Read more »
Nothing stopping Dick from finding a higher paying job in the private sector except for his addition to power and the perks of office, and a job that has no real KPIs for success. By his logic if the reporter should be paid less due to decreasing readers/viewers, then what should Congress be paid for their fiscal malfeasance?
Congress shoul not receive any pay raise for not doing their jobs