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.
New spending programs while pensions are substantially underfunded is the norm in Illinois.
Goes hand in hand with legislatively hiking pension benefits while pensions are underfunded.
Which goes with hiking pay while pensions are underfunded.
Which goes with hiking current benefits while pensions are underfunded.
Which goes with hiking retiree healthcare benefits while pensions are underfunded.
Which goes with issuing bonds while pensions are underfunded.
All of which happen while retiree healthcare is unfunded or underfunded.
Don’t worry, the Central Planners have yet another government program to fix the problem.
It’s gonna be great.
Evanston has long history of SJW virtue-signaling. Interesting that a Black woman alderperson chose to veto this initiative, considering it to be “racist”, which of course, it is.
The dreaded “pitfall” REALITY keeps messing with their beautiful plans. Gosh, it sounded good in PolySci 101!