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.
Better late (decades late) than never. Moody’s still hasn’t noticed the flames erupting from the fiscal dumpster that is Chicago. Buyers of bonds during the ratings agencies’ reality-defying reporting should be able to sue these serial liars.
Chicago, and Illinois, should have junk status for bonds. Anything else and the analysts are not telling the truth.
Baby steps, S&P, baby steps.