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.
Increased public pensions are another way Pritzker is buying votes.
So much BS from Pritzker on this, where to begin? He says “These are people I think all of us believe deserve to be paid what they’ve been promised,” Pritzker said. “They do an unbelievably hard job, and they deserve it. It was not a sweetener. It was something that they were owed.” – no! They were owed the Tier 2 pension they were hired under. The Tier 2 pensions conformed to law. There was no reason to increase them. A lawmaker proposed a viable solution – a law requiring an adjustment only and unless the payouts fell short of… Read more »
There are so very many examples of mismanagement from the Dems that run Illinois. This is one of them; albeit, a huge one now for the taxpayers to pay.