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.
With or without pension reform taxpayers are still going to lose. It is a matter of how much.
Not if they move to a responsible state that doesn’t rape its citizens in order to satisfy the money lust of the public sector pensioners
What is sickening is how high the cost is per citizen (>7k) even in what they consider the state best funded pension TN. So even in TN, each child is born indentured by a 7K yoke of pension debt It is sick. Our children are no longer born free, they are all saddled with an oppressive yoke of debt.