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.
They know the cost of not passing the pension, their legislative seats.
Dead on. Since Rauner the pendulum has swung in favor of union employees and pensioners but yet everyone acts shocked that JB wont offer up a constitutional amendment for pensions and Lightfoot provided a favorable contract to untions. We are truly dysfunctional.
Not we, they. I didn’t vote for any of these people and I take no responsibility for their actions. It’s a tyranny of the majority, and as a member of the minority, I literally bear no responsibility for any of this.
If you live in Illinois it’s “we” when the bill comes due.