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.
More debt. I wouldn’t trust Fitch’s rating for these, as the rating doesn’t take into account the problems coming to a head due to the near-criminal mismanagement of state finances by JB the Hutt and his political animal henchmen.
Actually, the IL Finance Authority is quite separate from the state. These bonds would be backed by mortgages on the facilities they fund, so it’s not a State of IL credit issue.