Totaling the unsustainable tax increases and windfall revenue during Pritzker Administration – Wirepoints
May 26, 2026
23 Comments
With $162 billion more from taxpayers, couldn’t you deliver a few bond upgrades, too
-- Connecting the dots between our economy, government and business --
Audio and summary 
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.
So let me get this straight. You can’t fund the pension promises already made. So this genius comes up with the great idea of making the size of the unfunded liabilities much larger. Your “constitution”, Amendment 1 and your bought and paid for supreme court and general assembly preclude any idea of reducing that liability. Only a few conclusions can come from such a proposal. 1. The person proposing this and her party could not care less about how this gets paid or who has to pay it. 2.The person proposing this and her party don’t care if this ever… Read more »
I would go with all 5 as well, they are all true and correct. I would also add a sixth condition; the legislators and the unions know that a bankruptcy is a real possibility, and they are raising the pay levels as high as possible for the eventual haircut and shave that will occur…
Just keep digging apparently state hasn’t hit bottom yet.