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.
People will still tip and how much will be determined by the total amount of the check and the quality of service. Wages of employees will not be posted on the menu or on the specials board. Today’s special is BLT with fries and your waiter makes $21.50 per hour and has only 1 deduction. So most of us will not know what they make.
Many will still tip, but not as much. Some, who see their $15 sandwich now costs $18, will stop tipping.
$18 sandwiches mean many, many restaurants will close down. Food price inflation has simply made the take-out food model unsustainable.