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.
$200,224,896,429 is the total 2018 Unfunded Actuarial Liability for most of the public sector pension plans in Illinois, per the Illinois Department of Insurance, Public Pension Division, Pension Data Portal, 2019 Biennial Report Summary Spreadsheets.
https://insurance.illinois.gov/Applications/Pension/PensionDataPortal.aspx
That excludes mass transit (CTA, RTA, METRA, PACE, etc.), housing (CHA, etc.), and the South Cook County Mosquito Abatement District Pension Plan in Harvey.