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.
Teacher cuts are the only answer to save money immediately.
CPS is WAY overstaffed.
Here is five simple steps: 1. Bust all Public Sector Union scum, imprison all CTU Members and give school vouchers for all parents. 2. Declare bankruptcy. 3. Pool all of the IL pension money into one pot and divide by number of pensioners. 4. Eliminate sales and property taxes. 5 Cut all government spending to 20% of current levels except for police and firefighters. Solved.
If only other states were as greedy and mismanaged as Illinois, JB and BJ would have us by the short hairs, because we’d have nowhere to relocate to for relief.
Many of the “ultra-rich” will be more likely to scoot instead of putting more “skin in the game.”
back to the drawing board