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.
Maybe if IL would stop fraud and corruption education could be funded.
“Budgets show where priorities are, and not just what, but who is valued,” she said. “Workers in Illinois have been undervalued for far too long. Which is why the state is budgeting far more for pensions these days than it did in decades past. Since we can’t go back in time to lower your salary or take away some of your raises and instead put that money into the pension systems where it should have gone tbw, this is where we are. You got yours. Now they pay. “I got out at 55 and I don’t have to work ’til… Read more »
These educational people don’t realize that their salaries and pensions are what are driving costs higher.