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.
Cliffed benefits are usually bad. Our office was moving from from the burbs to the city. If one made less than $x there was y% raise. ( i forget actual amounts, perhaps $50K and 3%)
I was making a few hundred above $x, so I asked for a pay decrease. I was refused a few times, but became enough of a pain, that I got the bump.
Government doing what government does best. Screwing up everything it touches.
They should give pensions to welfare recipients after 30 years just like any public employee.
Headline number should be 710,000.