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.
When at fault Blame Trump
Financial mismanagement has been the hallmark of the Illinois Democrat Party. Look in the mirror Gov Pritzker!
Pritzker is right, Trump forced him to do fiscally and culturally destructive things. If only Trump hadn’t stopped pension reform and using Covid money for permanent spending. Forcing him to sign a Tier 2 pension bill that further addles the city of Chicago. Trump forced Pritzker to sign the SAFE-T Act and protect criminals while telling victims of crime to suck it up, buttercup.
Illinois is self-inflicted high risk; they do everything to discourage business. Not much choice they have to raise so much more money to pay the pension debt they are going to have to tax everything and anything.