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.
I bet if you turned Mailee Smith’s article into a quiz and gave it to the legislators that voted in favor of putting this constitutional amendment on the November 2022 ballot, the majority of them would flunk the quiz.
And, if a majority of the the legislators could not pass a Mailee Smith quiz about the proposed union constitutional amendment, certainly a majority of voters would not be able to pass the quiz. So what is the point of having a union constitutional referendum if the majority of the voters do not comprehend the content of the referendum? The point is to satisfy unions. It’s a union power game allowed by a bunch of legislators that are, for example, uneducated about the topic, support unions, afraid of unions, and no doubt there are other reasons too. This proposed amendment,… Read more »