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.
94,000+ students enrolled in college and many of them will be getting their dream degree in music appreciation or dance or unicorn studies while racking up 10’s of thousands in tuition debt. I imagine that in the back of their heads they are hoping for debt forgiveness and for working taxpayers to foot the bill.
Sadly, they don’t even understand that these degrees are useless. Instead, they think it is a “systemic” problem that our economy does not sufficiently value a degree in unicorn studies.