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.
There are so many constructive and interesting jobs that don’t require a Waste of money. The Education Industry has been exposed, it’s not only ugly; but stinks too!
Customers not buying what they are selling. Capitalism at work.
Whatever happened to scholars who dressed shabbily because of their love of learning? ANSWER: Faculty unions who persuaded them that they could have their cake and eat it also. Repurposing tenure from protecting free expression to sinecures for those who shut down free expression.
Give them credit for good marketing, however, convincing the wealthy to pay $75K annually for a windshield sticker. Likely they’ll last for a while longer but eventually rising sea and lake levels will wipe out everything but their endowments. Then the second and third flowers of the wilderness may bloom again.