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.
“As of Wednesday (Oct 8), the case file associated with Abdelhadi’s case does not contain an affidavit documenting her financial resources. This leaves two possibilities: Either the University of Chicago pays its tenure-track professors poverty-level wages, or a well-compensated faculty member is improperly receiving taxpayer-funded legal assistance meant for the poor. Publicly available information suggests the latter. Abdelhadi resides in a luxury four-bedroom, four-bath apartment listed for rent last year at over $3,000 per month. A report from the University of North Carolina indicates that professors at Abdelhadi’s rank earn an average of $141,000 annually at the University of Chicago. Although it… Read more »
Is this fraud on her part?
Theft of service?
Did she lie about her income/assets in order to qualify? No? Then it’s not fraud or theft of services.
Non-enforcement and/or selective enforcement have changed the legal “rules.” People in Illinois should know that better than almost anyone else (with the possible exception of plea-bargaining lawyers). SO, just because you might be correct if you read the law and have a good understanding of the facts, you should also consider what unvarnished politics and campaign contributions have done to the legal system. The “rule of law” has become a joke in respect of both the “rule” and the “law.” Both the right- and left-wingers share the guilt and it greatly depends on the place that enforces the law. Why… Read more »
So true, and I am afraid people don’t understand the consequences long term. As people lose faith I the rule of law they will think less of compliance, view it all as a political game, and think of it as rule of the jungle. It really is the route to something like third world or Russia.
I’m not the one saying she committed fraud without any evidence. I’m not the one asking if she engaged in theft of services. I agree with much of what you wrote. The solution isn’t assuming guilt without any evidence. The solution isn’t to identify an “enemy” and then look for crime. You have people in these comments wanting the DOJ to audit her financial records. For what crime? Because she says she can’t afford a lawyer? I do not support this professor but at the same point I don’t think the solution is falsely accuse her of crimes without any… Read more »
Based on your latest post, you seem to have been suggesting what a prosecutor must prove in order to sustain a conviction. With that spin, you get a free pass on what seems (at first reading) to be a thumb on the scale in favor of the hapless and lawyer-less individual being accused. Hopefully a court-appointed attorney or one compensated from a union treasury will pick up the hint and turn it into a jury question of whether or not she was lying. That then probably gets her to the standard of “proof beyond a reasonable doubt” so that a… Read more »
This is a great opportunity for DOJ to go through her Financials. If she’s broke than where’s her money going
Tell her to ask Hamas to pay her legal bills
When there were times in my life when I needed more money, I had two options.
1. Get a second job.
2. Look for a better paying job.
Not once did I think, “I wonder if I can get more money from the government?”
But that’s just me, regular normal American, not asking what my government can do for me.