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.
the Smallest amount of due diligence and the perspective Illinoisans run for the hills.
Nobody wants to take the boosters or some new strange drug. What’s the point of setting up your life to enter the labor force and start a new job when they could potentially fire you in the fall for not taking some new and dangerous drug? The courts have sided with Pritzker and there’s no exceptions. Actions have consequences.
Why should a “living wage” be equated with an “entry level wage”? People entering the work force for the first time aren’t always worth $15 or more an hour. Shouldn’t the wanna be employee have some responsibility to prove his value?
We used to understand that certain types of jobs were never going to provide a “living wage”. If you expected to support yourself, you had to upgrade your skills. Working at a fast food place was a job for teenagers to earn spending money, or save for college. Both foreign concepts these days.
Illinois paid people not to work — this is the result