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.
Pretty soon there will be graduating college kids looking for jobs, they’re probably not collecting outsize unemployment benefits. I hope they all find jobs and I hope the unemployment leeches are left out in the cold.
The bottom line is folks are now better off on the dole, claiming unemployment, and then working private jobs on the side cash only.
I work in a retail store for minimum pay, but have a whopping 22% of my pay taken off for taxes and other things, to pay for those who sit at home who receive more cash than me.
There is no fool like an old fool.
This discounts the theory socialists put out about everyone would contribute what they are capable of doing.
The article dance around the fact that the Federal government is causing this problem with their extensions and raises of unemployment benefits. Why work when you can make enough by just staying home?
Unemployment benefits why would you go to work when you can sit home and make more money and not pay taxes, wonder why hum.