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.
NO NO NO
They are not UNDERFUNDED.
GET That damn idea out of your heads.
They are OVER PAID.
Cut the tax burden in Illinois to 10% of what it is now and cut all pensions in half.
You over committed to these people.
You let the Unions run the freaking state into the ground.
Are you really that stupid to think this is a funding issue?
You are wrong on this and have been for 50 years.
In case there was any doubt that public unions run this state…