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.
Thank you SCOTUS for the Janus ruling
All this headline means is that generous government benefits allow them to retire early.
So your contention is that these employees retired early and the state didn’t hire any as a replacement? That’s great news! The state will save massive amounts of money.
Then again, maybe the articles point around the Janus decision has something to do with it. Maybe these people decided to stop paying their dues and are no longer union members. Reading is fundamental old Joe.
The do not teach reading in the CPS.