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.
Are we getting close to admitting that much of what is called “education” is only occasional babysitting?
At a certain point (and I think we have reached it) it’s understandable that teachers are demoralized, parents and students are discouraged, bureaucrats are helpless and the system is beyond fixing. Parents who can afford it will take their children out of public schools and the rest of them and their offspring will stare into the abyss. Instead of trying to fix things, liberal politicians and racial justice advocates will continue on their trajectory of organizing the dispossessed to vote the rest of us into continuing decline. Polarization will increase. Ben Franklin (a.k.a. Poor Richard) will again be vindicated: “It’s… Read more »
We are finding out now why the founders had a serious battle over extending voting to all, vs voting only by those with skin in the game (property owners/taxpayers). Seems like the wrong side won that battle.