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.
When seconds count………you’re screwed!
Malfeasance to the max. No money for new police hires or incarceration of criminals, cause most available tax revenue must go to public pensions and public sector medical benefits.
Unless there is public sector pension reform, and real political corruption reform, IL continues its downward spiral.
There is an interesting graph in NASRA Issue Brief (state by state) which demonstrates the upward trajectory of Illinois spending just on pensions. When you add in employee bloat (unnecessary teachers, for example) and seniority provisions in union contracts that courts hold to be “contract rights” with the highest level of priority, and early retirement with unreduced benefits we see the “full catastrophe” [Zorba the Greek]. There is much to deplore but not much to be surprised about. “We have met the enemy and he is us,” in the sense of blaming the voters. Our “system” is triangulated in a… Read more »
Well this was the plan all along.
I sure miss the Second City Cop blog. There was never more wisdom and truth on a single website. The guys that ran it for so long did an outstanding job.