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.
Unfunded Pension liabilities will be the cause of death for Illinois and Chicago. Pensions costs are exploding and will continue till they are ended. Taxes have to go much HIGHER to even come close to funding pensions. The way is it set up now the next generation will be higher in debt before they are born than ever in recorded history.
You can’t tax you way out of this hole, bankruptcy is the only solution for Chicago (and it it was possible) Illinois.