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.
Here’s the take away for PPF and the other Public Sector Union leeches: “Opinions by bankruptcy courts in Stockton, California, and Detroit, Michigan, confirm that federal Bankruptcy Code would take precedence over the Illinois constitution’s pension clause. It would also empower the city to renegotiate other corrupt deals.” Get ready for the loss of your stolen loot.
This is a state run for public employees and the plaintiff’s bar. Why are the rest of Illinois voters such suckers?
Austin Berg attempts to blame JB the Hutt’s latest cup of financial bleach he funneled into taxpayers’ gullets. The problem isn’t just this one bill. It also isn’t just the massive public PBO the PPF so immovably defends. It’s the entire catalogue of spending that Illinois’ political animals just can’t say ‘No’ to. Everyone wants to be Santa Claus. Santa gives out free stuff and the bill to pay for it all never arrives. JB the Hutt is only missing the proper colored suit and the beard. Mayor Cliff Notes and the rest of the Santa Claus Caucus must have… Read more »
It seems to get down to bailout or bankruptcy. If Trump keeps or increases the Republican majority in Congress, I think bailout will be off the table. The trajectory will then be toward bankruptcy. And that could solve a LOT of problems. For example, pension haircuts for the public pension millionaires. Clearly, we should protect the pensions of the less fortunate. This is the way the PBGC protects private pensions. This is the way Social Security caps benefits. Kicking the can on pensions is meant to secure the public pension millionaires for as long as possible. The retired superintendents are… Read more »
Chicago Bankruptcy ASAP
It has already failed; there is no hope now. Death by public sector greed. The courts will have to figure this mess out. The taxpayers will be the biggest losers of all. The public sector has destroyed the private sector businesses, much too expensive and risky to build a business in Chicago.
Trump to CHI “Drop Dead!”. Mayor Prozac and JB Trust Fund deserve nothing less.
JB and BJ and all of the CTU leeches are too vastly dumb to understand your historical reference.
If one city gets bailed out of bankruptcy, then a thousand more will follow
Detroit, now Chicago.