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.
Unemployment bebefits are an insurance program. The employee pays into the insurance with every paycheck and the employer pays into the insurance with every paycheck. The insurance premium is based upon actuarial data based upon business type and historical unemployment data for that industry. Right? We have had a functioning economy for six years and a boom economy for three of those six years. The unemployment insurance pool should be flush with cash. So…….where’s the money Mike Madigan?