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.
Drop the right amount of cash on the desk of a politician and you can get anything you want, good, bad, or ugly it doesn’t matter. Pay to play should be the motto on the state flag
Hiking pension benefits, retiree healthcare benefits, pay, and healthcare benefits of active workers; while pensions and retiree healthcare are underfunded; in exchange for political campaign contributions (cash), political campaign assistance (GOTV, etc.), and votes; is the #1 historic pay to play scheme by Illinois politicians. Let’s play dumb and say the same politically powerful special interest groups (unions, etc.) were politically powerless to affect employer contributions to the pension and retiree healthcare funds by Illinois politicians during those decades of hikes. Less money to annual employer pension contributions meant more money available to hike pay, healthcare benefits of active workers,… Read more »
Hmmmm….the Daley’s, where stealing from Chicago is a family tradition.