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.
Do we think the city has access to enough collection lawyers to wait around clogged courts with sketchy judges and unruly juries to gain revenues that exceed costs? Plus imagine the volume of wrongful discharge suits if the city decides to fire the delinquents. Likely the word is getting around so that increasing numbers of public servants will begin ignoring bills. How about a mass firing followed by a bankruptcy to wipe out the wrongful discharge suits as well as the pensions? Where State laws are a joke, turn the tables in a final Federal gotcha. Starting over can’t be… Read more »
these city employees need to be mandated payroll deductions for the fines which they owe
Yup, in the real world these debts would be sold to collection services every year. Just more evidence that public employees are all about grift in Chicago. And then Pritzker acts like a hero by having state taxpayers give these freeloaders bailouts, reinforcing their irresponsible behavior.
As Leona Helmsley said, “Only the little people pay taxes”. The same thing applies to fines to be paid by a public employee.
Lets not forget mayor Braindead and puppet master Stacey were part of the scofflaw brigade. This city sucks