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.
If you think jobs at major fast food franchises have cut employees and moved to automation, just wait and see what happens if this bill passes.
Minimum wage should be determined by municipalities, not statewide. Businesses on the North Shore or Lincoln Park might be able to afford $27/hour, but what about businesses in Dolton and East St. Louis? One size does not fit all.
Not even Federal, let supply and demand work. Where it always does unless government gets involved.
Every time IL raises minimum wage, businesses close, jobs leave, and inflation soars. Maybe minimum wage works get an education and obtain a skill to increase their wages. Public education isn’t helping by promoting indoctrination over education. Teachers need to teach or be fired. Use the old metrics for student proficiency to determine teacher retention.
If you go to any store now you will see short staffing. People aren’t hiring any extras and they are bare bones because there is no room for extras in order to eek out a living as the owner
Far too high. This will just make automation a must and there will be fewer entry level jobs. Illinois doing its best to destroy the private sector.
I avoid McDonalds because I hate their automated order kiosks and it’s not that I can’t navigate screen prompts.. I’d rather order in person. But this is what businesses will be forced to do.
I go in and scream HALO because they absolutely have the BEST coffee!
Illinois will now be a business desert