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.
Illinois has a pro public sector unions and pro government climate. Taxpayers and business exist to fill the trough for these pigs. Everyone else can go pound sand.
Public sector unions are rentiers: a person who lives on income from property or securities. Except instead owning of property or securities, members of public unions own the government. They can’t be fired from their jobs, they can shut down the government if they refuse to work, they get paid to not work, they get paid AFTER the stop working (pensions).
Sounds like the public union members are in control here, extracting rent and income from the rest of us.
Crooked Corrupt Unions In Illinois Are Kryptonite To Job Creators