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.
SB 1784 is a bad union power grab. For example, it mandates that government employers provide the home address, and any personal email or home phone or cell numbers on file, of union covered employees, even if the employee opts out of the union, unless otherwise mutually agreed. Another gem, the public cannot learn which employees belong to the union and which do not, or the amount of dues paid or not paid by an employee. The union knows, the employer knows, but the voter and taxpayer at large does not. And the public can’t see emails between the union… Read more »
This is payback for Janus. It will be overturned by the 7th Circuit as unreasonably alienating the rights of union members to not pay dues.
The gang in Springfield seems to think state employees work for the union, not the state.