"Public employee unions are politically impregnable, but their corrosion of democratic governance may leave them open to constitutional attack." 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.
“The first shoe to drop was Executive Order 10988 in which President John F. Kennedy, as payback for political support, permitted collective bargaining for federal employees. ” One of the few disagreements I’ve had with Mark is on JFK. I think JFK single-handedly ruined the future of government with this executive order. It was foolish to think he could keep this beast contained. Now we have states that will literally go bankrupt because of these unions. We have a country that is dominated by not just their economic terrorism on taxpayers, but social justice warrioring as well. It gets worse and worse every year,… Read more »