Wirepoints @Wirepoints

Independent research, commentary and news aggregation. We connect the dots between Illinois government, economy and people. #twill wirepoints.org Chicago, IL Joined November 2012

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Ralph Laro @LaroSos1

4 days ago

A Republican representative in Illinois with brains knows the voters in this state are imbeciles who vote for scumbags

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Another Pritzker budget, another plethora of tax increases. Pritzker’s eight new tax increases will take another $800 million from Illinois workers. This brings JB’s total tax and fee increases to 65, amounting to $8.5 billion annually, leaving Illinois residents paying the highest taxes and fees in the country. Effective state and local tax rates totaled nearly 17% for a median Illinois household last year, compared to the national average of just 11.02%. Unbelievably, that is even higher than No. 2-ranked New York at 14.95%. Meanwhile, Illinois property taxes have increased by $11 billion, or 33%. Illinois’ economy has performed so poorly that nearly all revenue growth used to fund the state’s ever-expanding government has come from tax increases rather than economic growth. In fact, since Pritzker took office, almost all employment growth has been in government jobs. Illinois residents—particularly middle- and upper-income earners—are voting with their feet. Since Pritzker took office, Illinois has continued to lose residents, while the state’s population decline has been offset by a surge in migrant arrivals, which some estimates place at more than 500,000 people. Surveys also show that roughly half of remaining residents say they would leave Illinois if they had the means to do so.

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Jen @IlliniJen

2 days ago

Illinois ranks dead last in jobs growth among big states under Pritzker. Even as he touts economic momentum and new investments, only 9,400 private sector jobs have been added since 2019 for 0.75% total growth. Neighbors grew 2.5%. Government added 36,600 jobs with your tax dollars, while professional services lost over 50,000 positions. This is what @JBPritzker calls “success.”

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Morning Answer @MorningAnswer

a week ago

The @chicagotribune editorial board expressed concern this week about the deteriorating relationship between Governor @JBPritzker and Mayor Brandon Johnson, suggesting that a healthy and productive working relationship between the two would be essential for Chicago to address its formidable fiscal challenges. @GlennonMarkE, founder of @Wirepoints, joined @DanProft to offer a rather different perspective on the value of those two working in harmony.

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Wirepoints @Wirepoints

a week ago

$162 billion: Totaling the unsustainable tax increases and windfall revenue during Pritzker Administration – Wirepoints wirepoints.org/totaling-the-u…

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Austin Berg @Austin__Berg

2 weeks ago

NEW: Chicago educators dealt a stunning rebuke to Chicago Teachers Union President Stacy Davis Gates’ push for an $8.5M dues hike. In modern Chicago history, there are no examples of teachers union membership bucking leadership in a referendum of this magnitude. Here's what it means for the city and the union. thelastward.org/p/chicago-teac…

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Brian Costin @BrianCostin

2 weeks ago

The Bears Megaproject bill is the biggest threat to property taxpayers I’ve ever seen. If this bill passes without changes, it will be catastrophic to local taxpayers. If you share taxing bodies with the Megaproject in Arlington Heights your property taxes could go up 60%!

Illinois Policy @illinoispolicy

2 weeks ago

The debate over the @ChicagoBears moving to Arlington Heights is hiding a massive loophole that will increase property taxes regardless of where you live in Illinois. Lawmakers are pushing a bill to keep the team from leaving for Indiana, but if it passes it was set a dangerous

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Jonathan Turley @JonathanTurley

2 weeks ago

...Johnson has destroyed the city and its economy with the help of the unions. jonathanturley.org/2025/09/05/a-b… Rather than make the Bears want to stay, they are focusing on burning other deals to the ground. They are literally pushing the Bears into Indiana.

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Morning Answer @MorningAnswer

2 weeks ago

.@GlennonMarkE, founder of @Wirepoints, joined @DanProft to discuss the property tax case in Cook County, regarding alleged property theft, and other Illinois policy developments.

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Wirepoints @Wirepoints

2 weeks ago

Why the Holdup Using Artificial Intelligence to Cut Illinois Government Costs? – Wirepoints wirepoints.org/why-the-holdup…

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Mark Glennon @GlennonMarkE

3 weeks ago

Replacement migration and the slow death of Illinois. amgreatness.com/2026/05/16/rep…

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Mark Glennon @GlennonMarkE

3 weeks ago

Universal health care proposal in Illinois Senate would eliminate private insurance, cover undocumented migrants yahoo.com/news/articles/… via @@YahooNews

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Dan Proft @DanProft

3 weeks ago

Americans owe @AlexBerenson a debt of gratitude for pursuing this case against the Biden administration's authoritarian and illicit infringements on 1st Amendment rights during COVID and demanding this admission of wrongdoing before he would settle it: "The United States Government. . . has acknowledged and conceded that the Government did in fact violate the First Amendment by exerting substantive coercive pressure on social media companies such as Twitter to suppress disfavored speech like Plaintiff’s."

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Jonathan Turley @JonathanTurley

3 weeks ago

I am speaking about Rage and the Republic today at the University of Chicago, tinyurl.com/2w8vzbhm, but had a restless night as if something was looming just outside my hotel window...

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Morning Answer @MorningAnswer

3 weeks ago

.@GlennonMarkE, founder of @Wirepoints, took a break from his usual beat of Illinois fiscal policy to travel to western Ukraine and report firsthand on conditions on the ground, joining @DanProft by phone from Poland on his way back. What he found contradicts much of the American media narrative about the state of the war and the disposition of the Ukrainian people.

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Brandi Kruse @BrandiKruse

a month ago

INSANE. Seattle's Socialist Mayor responds to exodus of wealth from Washington state by saying "BYE" ... then laughing. We're doomed.

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Jen @IlliniJen

a month ago

Chicago priorities, according to @ChicagosMayor and his 150 security guards. Strutting at the front of a massive Abolish ICE march like he’s grand marshal, while CPS students got bused from school to pack the crowd. This is what “leadership” looks like in Chicago.

Jen @IlliniJen

2 months ago

We’re all shocked that the former CPS teacher who was allergic to tests and homework supports a day off school to protest.

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John Tatar @JohnTatar4

a month ago

@publicpolicyman @CourtSpinelliTV @WGNNews Hell the only decent news coverage in Chicago is: 1. @CWBChicago 2. @Wirepoints The rest is the recital of press releases.

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Breitbart News @BreitbartNews

a month ago

A presenter at Illinois' Reparations Commission (ADRC) gives away the game: "It's IMPOSSIBLE, actually, for all states & localities to meet the task of closing the racial wealth gap. Their combined budgets across the U.S. are $5 trillion... The MINIMUM that's required to eliminate the racial wealth gap is $16 trillion."

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Morning Answer @MorningAnswer

2 months ago

.@GlennonMarkE, founder of @Wirepoints, joined @DanProft to note that the federal government spent more than a trillion dollars on anti-poverty programs in fiscal year 2025 alone, roughly $30,000 per person below the poverty line, that two-thirds of the entire federal budget goes to social welfare and education compared to eight percent for the military, and that the Illinois state budget has grown forty percent over the last eight years to $54 billion.