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.
Amazing that, when I contribute $1 into my 401k that is invested in the same stock market and mutual funds as public sector pensions, that dollar is sucked into a black hole, never to return. Yet put that same $1 in the pension systems and a prosperous economy is born.