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.
I can’t wait for John Deere to implement its DEI programs in Mexico! That will be fun to watch.
I think they’ll find that dealing with unions was preferable to dealing with the cartels…
Just goes to show you the leadership at Caterpillar is nothing more than Democrat globalist scum. Yes, Illinois sucks, we understand this, but they could have moved the factor 200 miles to the east or west, piece by piece, to a right to work state, and a good chunk of the work force probably would have followed them out of state. But they moved to Texas instead; Remember, America is just an economic zone to them, and if the economic zone isn’t earning a few more pennies, then they leave.
https://www.caterpillar.com/en/careers/why-caterpillar/diversity-inclusion.html
They’re just as woke as you can imagine too.
It’s not the rank and file, but the out of town, out of state Bosses who have their own agenda.
Caterpillar did this years ago in IL – outsource, open shop strategy, offshore, and bring in foreign H1B workers. Shawn Fain and Joe Biden and Pritzker can take a bow now.
Thank you Bill Clinton for signin NAFTA.
It took ’em long enough. Other major companies with manufacturing sites in IL shifted production south decades ago. I was an engineer for GE in the ’80s; then CEO “Neutron Jack” Welch made my job disappear, but left the buildings intact. Good ole Neutron Jack!