Totaling the unsustainable tax increases and windfall revenue during Pritzker Administration – Wirepoints
May 25, 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.
Increase contributions or cut benefits. Failing one of those, kick the can. Fee for this consult, $100K.
OR, in six months or less, taxpayers could pay the actuaries and lawyers for the City and the unions and for whomever else has unworkable ideas about the issue. Those fees will run into the millions — especially if they hire Mckinsey or another consultant to do a 200 page analysis detailing the obvious.
100k to provide advice that violates the law? No thanks. Increase taxes or cut other services to fund pensions. Beg for more tax dollars from the state. Pensioners won’t be increasing their contributions nor taking a cut.
Easiest way to solve the pensions crisis for the taxpayer is to MOVE ASAP.