Totaling the unsustainable tax increases and windfall revenue during Pritzker Administration – Wirepoints
May 25, 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.
That comment was taken from quite awhile ago and maybe as much as 2-3 years ago. It hardly seems fair to charge Cullerton with making that statement at a time when the financial status of IL wasn’t even close to as bad as it is today. In short, it seems you’ve reached out somewhere in left field to make your point incorrectly implying that he made that statement far more recently.
Yes, he has backed off from that kind of talk lately. But where we are now is a straight line, predictable trajectory of where we were then. He has no excuse for not having acknowledged then what we and many other realists saw then.
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You should be leading the call to filing bankruptcy!
Please inform your readers that States are not able to file bankruptcy, until federal legislation passes allowing them to do so.
Come on, there’s no way in hell that the State of Illinois will ever be able to pay those ridiculous and obscene pensions.
It’s either bankruptcy, or Detroit II.
Take your pick.
I’ve been doing that so much I’m hoarse! I was on WTTW saying it’s inevitable for Chicago. I’ve written repeatedly that legislation for the state itself should be our number one priority: https://wirepoints.org/bankruptcy-code-improvements-should-now-be-illinois-imperative-wp-original/