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.
Job growth is way different than skill growth. With a job you eat for a day, with a skill you eat for a lifetime. Mere jobs cannot lift it.
I live in an affluent suburb – no one *ever* talks about bringing “jobs” to my suburb. In fact, we don’t want jobs here and in many ways actively discourage it. I’m not sure why southsiders get the luxury of a short commute while the rest of us are driving/public trans all over the region for our jobs. They may bring these jobs to the southside, only to have workers from elsewhere work there instead.