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.
Here we go again, another shill for coming engineering shortages! Industry has screamed for decades about engineering shortages- how did the speaker arrive at 82K ? Economists cannot forecast conditions ten years in advance. NASA provided the drivers for our manufacturing base during the1960s and when that boom ended, there were no engineering jobs left during the 1970s. The 1980s were great when NASA and war preparations rejuvenated the manufacturing base and engineering employment. The successful ending of the cold war combined with free trade again put a damper on engineering employment. Have you as a laid off engineer ever… Read more »
Yes, the H1B and/or off-shoring of STEM jobs is one reason why America produces fewer STEM graduates than other countries in the west. They know their job could disappear in an instant.