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.
Private sector jobs are on the decline in Illinois. They should dance in the streets that someone, anyone is willing to open up a new plant and hire workers. Instead, they are trying to chase it to another state, and yes it will open somewhere else.
I’m guessing the plant is not near where you live
Good jobs are hard to find.
Lots of the kids will only get minimum wage jobs because they only have Walmart and fast-food jobs available to them.
Electric cars seem to be the future, like it or not.
How about we do business with companies not tied to the CCCP? Just a thought.