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.
Amazon is getting back into the business of delivering non-amazon packages and we’ll see how much this shakes up the package delivery business. When UPS negotiates with the teamsters over a new contract in 5 years the package delivery landscape may be totally different. The UAW used to ride roughshod over the Big 3 automakers until nonunion foreign transplants came into the car market. The financial crisis of 2008 pretty much ended the UAW’s monopoly power over the Big 3 and we’ll see if Amazon has a like effect over the teamsters at UPS.