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.
These article reflect the coming end of the Big 10 universities to Chicago pipeline, and signal the coming of the single HR childless cat-lady moving from smaller markets to Chicago’s bigger market. This what happens when a vengeful Democrat Party intentionally excludes, mocks and degenerates half the country’s population of conservatives. SAD!
Those universities themselves ended a long time ago. DEI, affirmative action, and the Civil Rights Act have destroyed our ability to produce educated adults.
You could also add the demise of affordable Catholic schools. A good grounding in the basics was necessary for college level critical thinking skills.
Debtsor – my observation is that the business climate in Illinois – combined with crime downtown – are so bad top notch employers are avoiding Chicago. I talked to a placement director at ND’s law school a few years back. At that level, they serve students well and he talked about the seismic shift away from Chicago and the need to further develop networks away from Chiicago. I hired a ND grad (just out of law school) for the DC market – he was excellent and I had competition in hiring him in DC. Anecdotal – but still illustrative.
Also, my lawyer friend tells me the law school bubble burst during the Great Recession. He said something like 3,000 new lawyers were admitted per year in November during the 90’s and 00’s; which dropped to 2,000 new lawyers during the ’10’s and apparently now, after a quick duck duck go search, it’s down to 1,100 lawyers per year, and the number of active attorneys in Illinois isn’t growing, but declining, as those ambulance chasers licensed in the 70’s and 80’s are now septuagenarians and fertile-octogenarians themselves, and are the zombies attorneys still walking around the courthouses or doing Zoom… Read more »
My brother-in-law is one of those septuagenarian attorneys who’s worked forever as an attorney and said he’ll never retire. He’s enjoying his golden years!