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.
Watching Trump turn CA Dems into whimpering bags of excuse makers for their lackluster, foot dragging attitudes to cleaning up the wildfire mess makes me support him and every executive order he signs even more.
Any federal employee who does not take the buyout and returns to downtown is making a YUGE mistake. They’re being offered a guaranteed seat on a lifeboat, but if they don’t take it they’re stuck on a sinking ship.
As an ex corporate refugee, you ALWAYS take the buyout in a case such as this.
Trump demands fed workers return to office or resign while JB guarantees AFSCME permanent remote work status in latest contract in bankrupt Illinois???
Does it really matter where computer work is done? If working at the employer’s place of choice matters only sometimes isn’t it wise to ponder why, who, when and where? Otherwise, making blanket work requirement changes seems more punitive than beneficial.
I don’t totally disagree, but if Trump evaluates each individual situation this never gets done. Government bloat is very real, and this action addresses at least part of it quickly, which isn’t easy. Companies across the country have done this and more are in the process. Not to mention, doing this piecemeal opens you up to lawsuits.
But, these wholesale, quick-and-easy decisions basically often were ill-advised when contemplated afterwards. Think of the Japanese internment camps in America during WW II as a prime, often cited example. I’ll presume you have some cursory understanding that many innocent people living in America but of Japanese origin were forced into US governmentally operated camps on the assumption that some—maybe even many— would be plotting to help the Japanese war effort against the USA. These easy-to-make simplistic wholesale management decisions often have dire consequences for innocent people, some lasting a lifetime.
Every decision can be viewed in the rear view mirror, but they aren’t all the same. Deciding that remote work is ending doesn’t equate to interment camps in my view. We can agree to disagree on this one.
I’m basically trying to say the standard ought to be making the right decision over the quick one. Making the right one takes time and counsel. Trump’s prone to shooting from the lip. Studying details for the best ponderables, taking counsel and deep thinking are not his forté.