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 don’t think Covid is high among the reasons that states like Illinois have lost population. Way too many other, more important, reasons we have seen population diminish.
I think the author is saying there is a correlation with COVID-19 policies, not that COVID-19 policies caused them to move.
You’re probably right that it’s more about the correlation but plenty of people left just because of the lock downs themselves. Look No further than JJ McCarthy, the Michigan QB that is entering the draft early. He was attending Naz until the Covid lockdowns and was forced to finish out his high school at IMG Academy in Florida. He had no choice if he was going to work on his game. During the national championship game the announcers kept talking about how he has strengthened his mental health because he had to learn how to deal with depression when he… Read more »
100% agree with you