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 Chicago pension morass is incredibly entangled among the various funds. Fully CTPF vested teachers can retire in their fifties but return as teacher’s aides to cover their medical insurance and earn credits with the Municipal Employees Retirement Plan while collecting full pension.Police can retire in their fifties and work Aviation security at the airports for medical insurance and municipal employee pension credit. Disgraced Alderman Burke was eligible for a pension from the police fund. The money was never meant to run short. The sheep who voted for this scheme aren’t fully aware of the problems yet.
Simple. If the pensions are not for teachers, then the city pays it.