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.
Funny stuff, again. Nothing could be left unscathed for cuts. Nothing except for bloated salaries, pensions, and health care benefits. Did politicians always say outrageously stupid things, or has there been more of this in recent years? It seems the latter.
Here’s an idea: Gut the pensions, throw IL Politicians (mostly Democrat) and their SEIU and AFSCME criminal co-conspirators to the wolves. It is inevitable, so the sooner it happens the better.
What is the Sun times anyway? Nothing but a patternless crossword puzzle surrounded by 2nd grader reading material.
Wow! Did this terrible financial mess just appear recently? Will public sector pensions be “scathed” or will the scathers fall back on the old saw “the protections are written into the state constitution”?
Bull crap