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.
In state universities and schools there is a lot of pork.
Maybe the Assistant Deputy Dean to the Vice Chancellor for Diversity can take a 50% pay cut and squeak by on a mere $900,000 per semester
And perhaps the three dozen assistant to the assistant vice provosts – all pulling down $150K/year – in the office can be eliminated.
good close down these indoctrination centers of communism my tax dollars werent meant to over throw the goverment
Why won’t the state address the pension crisis instead of threatening universities? Ironic the governor talks about “science and data” all the time while cutting off future generations in Illinois from being included in higher education.
Meanwhile, the state SURS contribution is $1.7 billion.
More than 40% of the students at UIUC are nonresident. Many Illinois residents were denied seats at UIUC because of this. If UIUC needs even more money, they can raise the out of state tuition.
Oh well spend spend spend !!, how in the hell can 1.2 billion possibly save the university’s in Illinois that amount cannot even save one.