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.
Even if such a 40% rule made any sense (which it doesn’t), a court would likely strike it down, since it was not a part of the understanding of the parties, when the manufacturing districts were created.
Say what!!, Chicago (once small industry capital of the world) still has a manufacturing industry base?? It has a lot of warehouse distribution but I’m afraid the manufacturing left 60 years ago.
Like the article says, we still have a surprising amount of food production facilities. The local non-national grocery store I visit is full of reasonably priced, locally manufactured products, including a lot of breads, ethnic foods, dairy products.
So, no one asked why local residents aren’t being hired? Just more calls for more regulations on private businesses that not one politician or non-profit hack would have any idea how to run, much less have any understanding of the economic consequences of their demands.
Maybe the residents are not being hired because they’re CPS grads. Just sayin’…