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.
It’s Big Government’s job to micromanage college admissions?
Public college admissions are part of big government.
We need more transparency on students being denied, their test scores, their Demographics, state residency, and the reasons for denial.
Could the reason for denial be the U of I wants to prop up certain Demographic groups and generate more revenue from out of state students.
“It’s sponsored by State Rep. Mark Batinick (R-Plainfield). He heard about someone who scored a 33 out of 36 on his ACT, but was denied admission to the U of I, where both his parents and older sister attended.” “My issue with the University of Illinois is that we give them a lot of money, so we need to make sure we are not losing our residents,” said Batinick. “We need to give our residents priority, not out-of-state, or out-of-country residents.”” The Stupid Party (IL GOP) just realizes that U of I is a state money maker that leverages its… Read more »