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.
But JB says these are not taxes on Illinois families. Only tariffs are taxes on Illinois families.
Huge Pension costs are smothering Illinois taxpayers. Higher and higher taxes are on the way to stay. The numbers are so out of balance that large tax increases must happen for years to come. Illinois must change their constitution so they can go bankrupt.
Illinois can’t change their own constitution to allow bankruptcy. It doesn’t work that way. They would need the federal government to allow it.