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.
Most college students are low income being that they do not work, except for summer jobs. Let them vote for democrats for free food.
College students by definition are low income. When Old Joe was one his goal was to become higher income. Lots of us lived on Mac & Cheese back in the day. It’s ramen noodles now.
In Illinois today, “children” up to age 22 who reside with the parent are considered to be part of the “SNAP unit” so they are already eligible for SNAP under a parent. Who will police this to insure that the “children” don’t get benefits twice–once as a resident dependent and once as an single person household?
If you need free meals to attend college…you can’t afford College. Go get a paying job.
Couldn’t the once great state of Illinois just once try to decrease the need to depend on government by encouraging income producing employment.
Working people are bad for the welfare complex and there is little room for grift.