There aren’t easy answers to these challenges, and this post is more of a strangled cry for help than a detailed set of solutions. 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.
Interesting article. Government crushed by its own weight. The author fails to acknowledge that they did this to themselves, one interest group at a time. Also, it’s time to stop using the phrase public servants to describe government employees. A quaint phrasing that no longer describes reality, if it ever did.
And no mention that are “public servants” are at a minimum the upper-middle class delivering incompetent services at astronomical prices to a citizenry making less, (at least in Chicago anyway)….and THEY can’t understand why folks voted for Trump.
Thumbs down from Pensions Paid First.