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.
In two short years, Illinois jumped from #33 in 2019 to #10 in 2021 in Education? How is that possible? Did half the country shut down their schools?
In 2018, Illinois ranked #17 in Education. So Pritzker took over, tanked Education, then wants to take credit for our improved rankings a few years later? BS.
https://www.cnbc.com/top-states-past-year-rankings/
CNBC IMMEDIATELY discredited it’s ranking by saying Illinois has the best infrastructure in America!!! That shows the clowns in NY haven’t a clue!!!
So, per this ranking, IL, MA and MN are better places for business than, say, FL, AZ and WI. Hmm. It’s not an opinion survey, the methodology explains. Seems to me it is opinion — opinion of the NBC journalists who put this together.
When you selectively choose the attributes on which to rank something, it’s easy to come up with your pre-selected answer. Florida and Arizona are so far ahead of Illinois it is ridiculous.
The System as it’s called by outsiders all pushes the same message across all platforms. The System says red states bad, blue states good.
Nothing says a state is pro-business like shutting them down and putting businesses out of business for a cold virus. CNBC is one giant paid advertisement, wonder how much the PR firm got paid for this list?