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.
Meanwhile, IL’s even crazier cousin, California, has come back to reality, and Gov. Newsom has proposed a 10% pay cut for every state employee next year.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/rachelsandler/2020/05/14/faced-with-54b-coronavirus-deficit-california-gov-proposes-10-pay-cut-for-state-workers-including-himself/#10419ba47e8c
But back in IL, Gov. J Beluga Whale, he is giving raises in July to every state employee. As Capitol Fax likes to point out, the raises were negotiated, and there’s nothing he can do about it.
A number of folks in my professional circle are still working but their employers ended their 401(k) employer match. That’s like a $3-5,000 backdoor pay cut (albeit deferred). These types of cuts won’t make the news but cost private sector workers all the same.
I see no reason why university employees – particularly well-paid professors – couldn’t handle a 10-20% pay cut. Where else are they gonna go anyway? If the Assoc Prof of Gender Studies at NEIU had better options, they wouldn’t be at NEIU.