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.
Mark, it’s impossible to think clearly about these issues because Orange Man Bad!
I do not think that ANY Federal and most State employees have taken even a modest pay cut, or any have been furloughed – So people who have seized control (even though State Constitutions put limits on that) are feeling ZERO effects of their ‘policy’ decisions. A 10-20% across the board pay cut and furlough’s at the Federal level and State level would do a LOT to dump cold water on these overly aggressive stay at home orders.