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.
Repubs will campaign on breaking the promises to labor. Dems will campaign on honouring those promises. The Rule of Law, and the Courts have made clear what is doable, and what is not. Haven’t they? We the people will once again assert our will with our votes. Won’t we? Those who will not have the will of the people behind them, nor the rule of law behind them, ….will continue on with their quixotic march. They will turn to the Feds for help because they lost in the Courts and they lost at the ballot box, and they will battle… Read more »
Spare me the “rule of law” sanctimony. I’ve never heard anybody advocate breaking the law on this site. Pursuant to law, debts get adjusted day in and day out, and laws get changed often — legally.
What happens when Illinois cannot borrow more money?
A new Illinois Supreme Court is needed so no new legislation required only a sensible interpretation of existing law and overturning ridiculous self- serving interpretations. Compounding colas in a low interest environment is an unsustainable Madoff scheme. Hence the many adjustments in SS. Eventually the court will have to reconsider its erroneous decisions but probably not until the population loss makes it apparent or the voting population with math skills votes them out. Then again those of us with math skills are already looking at the exits.