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.
When you hire an immigrant, you normally get a good worker at fair market cost. When you hire a spoiled rich kid, you normally get a poor worker at twice the price. Let the rich white kids live in their parents’ basement, smoke pot and play video games. Let the productive workers make America a more productive place.
JB has never been for US citizens.
Pritzger, as they say an elephant does, has forgotten nothing. He let Rivian bring in cheaper help just as he will with Gotion, hoping no one will notice the lengths he will go to in order to appease his pet projects.
The H1B scam has been going for decades as university and industry leaders screamed about “engineering shortages”. It is a method for these leaders to hold down American wages while hiring cheap technical coolies. Early in the Reagan years the alternative press revealed that big businesses such as IBM and HP held annual meetings to compare engineering salaries. Trump also wants to expand this outrageous hiring plan. Engineers come from poor and lower middle class families and have a very high probability of beiing laid permanently in their forties. Industry has very little loyalty to those who made profits for… Read more »
“…laid” or “…laid off?”
I am much too busy in retirement to fully proof read all that I write. My important points are not altered by that error.
Proof reading is a dying art, unfortunately.
Illinois has two of the real powerhouse engineering schools in the US– Univ of Illinois and IIT. And Purdue with a great engineering school is not that far away. And JB must have forgotten about Northwestern’s E school. These inept people in our state government are really clueless.