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.
Only commenting on the first element here. It’s very interesting … There just might be something to the complaint if the common setting of eligibility standards can be shown to decrease competition among these schools. Proving that could be difficult. From the schools’ perspective, they have adopted a policy of “coopeition,” where everyone collaborates to divvy the pie. They talk like that openly and believe the shared approach affords them legal protection. Quite possibly, the complainants have a point. Be fun to watch this move downstream into changing policy a year or two from now. The schools WILL react. I… Read more »