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.
All pigs are equal, but the Public Sector pigs are more equal than the others
To clarify the comment: “Today, Illinois serves its Public Sector Union Leaders first, its Public Sector Union Members Second and the people never.”
It should be “Public Sector Union Members by order of seniority”…Unions ALWAYS throw their junior members under the bus to protect senior members. That’s why when layoff times come, senior members are protected while junior members get the shaft. In most cases, the junior members could all keep their jobs if the senior members would take a pay cut. But the senior members refuse, so the junior members get the shaft, and the Union does little to protect them.
True like different rules for Tier 1 retirees before 2010 and Tier 1 after 2010 and New rules for Tier 2 after 2010 and money is being diverted to Tier 1 retirees from Tier 2 which they are being thrown under the bus and they have good company because taxpayers have always been under the bus and are ultimately responsible for every Tier.