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
-- Connecting the dots between our economy, government and business --
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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.
How about connecting the dots between the union pensioner receiving $10k a month, for the rest of his or her life, and the dungeon like condition of Logan.
But hey, that pensioner’s got bills too – an F250 and all those water sports toys aren’t hauling themselves to the vacation home in Michigan, paid for courtesy of the tax payer!
If you get a chance check out the TRS Illinois website. Click Newsroom and scroll to Facts about 100K club and TRS Members boosts economy. and many more. Nothing mentioned that this is mostly taxpayer money they are stimulating the economy with. After all we have unlimited money for them to keep stimulating.