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.
Can’t get around the old minimum wage, Mortimer.
Minimum wage not keeping up with inflation complaints starting in 3,2,1…
Minimum wage increases are more than keeping up with inflation. At $12 per hour and 6% inflation your cost of living increase is 72 cents but the minimum wage will go up a buck per year over next 3 years.
But they’ll argue $15 goal didn’t take high inflation into account. It’s a moving target. One we get to $15, they’ll make the same argument about $15 that they did about $8.