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.
Every so often the State of IL gets something right, even if inadvertently. Noncompete and nonsolicitation Agreements are anti-competitive and anti-free market. They are not for the benefit of the employee and exist only for the benefit of the employer to stop the free flow of labor to their competitors. Interesting note, the only industry in which the noncompete and nonsolicitation agreements are outright prohibited is the legal field. Because people and corporations have a constitutional right to choose their own counsel and they can’t be constrained by private agreements limiting representation. But it (used to) apply to everyone else.… Read more »