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.
From the article. . .”some furloughs of county non-union workers,”
Is that intended to imply that union workers are exempt from being furloughed during the budget crisis?
I’ve read some furloughs aren’t really furloughs at all. They’re replacing days worked now with PTO days in the future. In other words, these cuts aren’t really cuts as the furloughed employees will get that money back in the future. Anyone else know how furloughs worked?
Yep.
There’s plenty on the table but it seems that there are fewer and fewer people willing to hang around to pay the tab…
Cut cut cut.