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.
We are again being forced to realize that lifetime secure employment with COLA and early retirement and benefits until death simply can’t be sustained by our economy. For people whose expectations are being disrupted, we have job retraining and welfare and food and transit benefits to provide a bridge to a employment in necessary jobs. Teachers have proven themselves unnecessary by walking away during COVID. AI will make them even less necessary. They want to teach stuff that nobody needs or wants to know. Those with most seniority see the handwriting on they wall and so they adopt “policies” that… Read more »
Time to start calling these unions the Anti Student Unions.