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.
The City of Chicago no longer funds retiree health care unless employees signed up for a 55 and out program. Daley #2 cut retiree health insurance supplements and retiree health programs. Even when the retiree health care was run by the city retirees didnt get it for free, they had to pay monthly premiums that weren’t cheap ie $600 a month for a family, with deductibles on everything for each family member. City run health care was not cheap and the supplement was minimal.