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.
Some American people today don’t want to work for a living but still want the pay. In particular, it’s beneath these people to work skilled factory jobs like welders, QC technicians, and CNC machine operators. Also, some of our young people don’t want to start at the bottom and move up; they want the higher pay right away. In either case, you wouldn’t want people with these attitudes working in your factory anyway.
The statistics regarding job openings now and in the future are same rubbish I heard during the past six decades from the National Science Foundation about engineering shortages. It is a subterfuge by university professors to fill their classes and for industry to obtain cheap, disposable engineering talent; that is why our colleges are filled with wealthy scum from Red China. Are you old enough to recall the recession of the 1970’s? The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, IEEE, is one those societies run by academics and industry. Back in the 1980s working engineers nearly voted the academics out… Read more »
Yeah, they post adds to secure H1-B workers. It’s the tried and true outsourcing business model.
Maybe the manufacturer’s association should have thought about long term ramifications before their members rescinded every employment contract and coerced employees into experimental medical procedures as well as violated personal privacy laws. I don’t know about you guys, but I evaluate my counterparties before I enter into a contract. If Illinois employers repeatedly violate clauses and local courts refuse to adhere to the rule of law, why even bother? Requiring your kids to take experimental vaccinations isn’t exactly an incentive to move to Illinois either. This Infographic hasn’t aged well. https://ima-net.org/covid-19/ Lightfoot made the decision to steamroll the FOP last… Read more »
You nailed it and it will take a generation or longer for business leaders to forget or forgive what these blue states have done and what they’ve shown themselves to be once covid unmasked them, tyrants hell bent on taking everything from you.
Why does a progressive paradise fail to attract workers?
Perhaps those folks that don’t win Toni’s GBI lottery could be asked to fill out one of these job applications@