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.
1) Public sector employees should never be allowed to accumulate that many sick days to begin with.
2) Unused sick days should not count towards tenure or as time served.
3) Employers should be required to pay out accumulated sick days at the end of every fiscal year and allow a minimum carryover.
4) Employees shouldn’t be able to cash in sick days earned in 1987 on a $20,000 salary under their $90,000 upon retirement.
Who are you to make bold assertions like this? Who do you think you are!
You aren’t in Springfield, and your worthless opinions don’t matter! Go find somebody who cares, maybe they’re across the border, and don’t let the door hit your butt on the way out.
I disagree. This is a forum for opinions. “Those who stand for nothing will fall for anything.”