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.
Going unaddressed in this article is what are driving these costs up. My guess is salary inflation, health benefits and retirement packages. I bet if someone looked into the $$$$ spent here it would be jaw dropping!
State schools do not right-size or refocus their product to be competitive in the higher education market. They seem to watch as the student enrolment drops…and do nothing to address the change. When demand for your product (whatever it is) decreases, what do you do? Look at the quality of the product, the price point, do competitive analysis, etc., or perhaps look at cutting costs and overhead. Not state schools…nope, just continue to offer the same product, pay more for the system to deliver it and go back to the tax payer well every year for more and more money.… Read more »
Unfortunately, the Marxist longhairs and well paid regents, etc. of the universities can’t grasp that a lot of parents are waking up to the fact their children ( and money ) going to subversive friendly daycares are better spent at a trade school or in some other form of temporarily low paying internship .
State should cap any state school salary at 200k sounds high but that would be a HUGE cut in costs.