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.
More semi-competent lawyers and doctors. Next step is to abolish inequitable bar exams and medical credentialing. Then we can start electing incompetent judges. At one time the Michigan Supreme Court had 3 (of 7) justices named Kavanagh. And certainly civil service hiring will favor those from schools on native ground. Was it algebra where we had to find the lowest common denominator?
Competency = skin color other than white. Get it?
Good luck revamping state funding for public universities when pensions account for nearly 50% of state funding for public universities.
I know my kid won’t be attending trashy ‘equitable’ Illinois state schools!!