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 attended a Chicago area college and nearly all of my college friends have left Chicago. Only two stayed, because they married Chicago natives. The rest left. My alunmi notes section is all notes from graduates who’ve left the state to bigger and brighter futures. There is no place left for conservatives in the state. They’ve been gate-kept out of nearly everything and are actively driven away. No wonder they leave.
You’re 88 years old according to your other comments Debbie. Most of your college friends have left for a funeral home.
PPF – is the brain drain from Illinois real? I think it is, starting with the 50 percent who leave for colleges out of state. If the brain drain is real it can’t possibly be good news for the state and its economy. And this is the case no matter what Debtsor thinks. And again it really matters in Chicago because unlike the state as you constantly remind there is not enough money for pensions in Chicago. What matters is a conversation as to what brings high productivity people to the state. I don’t see that happening often in Illinois.… Read more »
Sorry, PPF is busy right now and can’t respond to your serious inquiry. Seems there is some serious gloating to be done, which of course is his forte.