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.
They’re too stupid to use tools. Since the days of Lotus and Word Perfect, everybody wants the software to do the work. It doesn’t work that way kids. It doesn’t work if your mind is empty. They just want somebody to do their work in the name of school newspapers for kids who can’t read! Oh Bo Ho!
Seems like this is providing students (and teachers) a great lesson in the value of free and open source software. As well as one of the downsides of centralized technocracy. “[T]hey create these big, broad-stroke policies without necessarily thinking about the nuances and who’s affected,” observes a faculty advisor.