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.
Wait a minute! Wasn’t the whole premise of creating the Postal Service out of the Post Office years ago to allow it to be operated as a private enterprise would? It’s never been allowed to because of incessant meddling by politicians. See for instance trying to close rural post offices that have lost their clientele. Or how about the resistance to move sorting from Springfield to Missouri? For those who have forgotten, or never knew, Federal Express was based on the premise it could GUARANTEE reasonably priced OVERNIGHT delivery by routing EVERYTHING through a single hub in Memphis. But it’s… Read more »
With the invention and proliferation of e-mail and direct deposit, the USPS has become a money hemorrhaging dinosaur with consistently worse customer service. Let it go the way of the phone booth and horse and buggy and stop funding it to ensure the pensions of those currently employed.
True, it’s not to late to revive USPS, but before long Raj the man it will be to late for Springfield, then again I think it’s already DOA.
“Equally disturbing is his vision of running it as a private enterprise rather than as a public service that ensures mailing and
votingelection-rigging services”Snooze….Who would have thunk?, Raja does his schtick for postal workers union……meanwhile the UPS storefront on my corner has pretty much replaced post office at a fraction of cost I’m sure (even as you have Suzie Mendoza going after UPS)