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.
I know many internet posters who believe, without a doubt, that the federal gov. is going to be the guardian angel that swoops in and bails out our pensions. I point out that is not happening and they scream at me that Durbin is ‘on it’. Yet, lookie here, even Durbin is getting humiliated in the Senate with Harmon’s request for billions. What an embarrassment! This humiliation does not end.
Put your head back in the sand Durbin and don’t come out until Pritzker tells you to