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.
This will finally be resolved with the twin bankruptcies of the State of Illinois and the City of Chicago. The courts will have to sort it all out. There will be no charges filed against the imbecile politicians that have criminally overpromised and underfunded these defined benefit pension plans for decades. The Chicago Mediots will focus on the women and minorities who will be trapsed in front of the cameras to show how heartless this mess is. It’s not heartless, it’s cashless, with all the hand wringing over nothing. Yes, the Pension gravy train will finally fall off the rails,… Read more »
Not to Worry the courts will sort it all out.
“What Me Worry?” Alfred E. Neuman
“Given how this pension working group is constituted, obviously, benefit changes downward or increased contributions from workers are unlikely.”
We already know how this ends – we’ve seen it before.
Da new Mayor will fix all of this.
NOOOOOOOT!!
Mayor BJ is a CTU sheeple.