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.
This will hit the United States. The crowded cities are toast. It might not be a bad idea to stock up on some staples that can be stored at room temp just in case. Worst case scenario, I go off the grid in rural Illinois for a few weeks this spring until the initial wave passes.
I am not at this point concerned about it becoming a big problem in the US. It’s catastrophic, however, for China, and that full story is not getting properly reported.
The communist party in china has put severe restrictions on wechat, the ‘officially government sanctioned’ chat/payment app, so little actual news is getting out, but the videos that do make it to twitter are scary and horrifying. I’ve seen a dozen videos of ambulance crews in hazmat gear forcibly removing suspected coronavirus carrier from their homes to be taken to isolation. In isolation, they are likely as good as dead, and the Chinese government says they are not allowing funerals, so the bodies are cremated almost immediately. Chinese officials are sealing doors to homes shut – sometimes the entire building… Read more »