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.
This woman knows money. Knows finances, bonds, knows the politicians’ financial manipulations and public disinformation. Every one of her articles is a primer on misleading the voters about finances.
Chicago is currently running a budget deficit. Kind of hard to make large, lump sum, cash payments to retirees when you don’t have the cash on hand.
Chicago needs to get authorization for bankruptcy, they will have to just stop paying and hopefully a bankruptcy would at least give this a bit of proper direction.