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.
And the Tribune comes through with another of its genius level ideas. Solve dysfunctional government with more government. Do any of you see the hopelessness of the system you live in?
Timely. In my opinion, the pension contributions, debt service and unfunded health liabilities, a real ticking bomb, are already absorbing 50% of the revenue. In other words, 50% of the revenue is not available for managing and servicing the municipality. In other words, their real purpose is already impaired dramatically. Knowing governments, you can also assume there are other liabilities that we don’t know about.