Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer: Spencer Pratt in Los Angeles Mayoral Race Offers Chicago a Blueprint
June 4, 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.
Meanwhile, in the real world, Illinois has huge cash deficits across the board, with the already untenable pension bomb growing ever larger. Only in the mind of an unaccomplished trust fund baby like JB the Hutt are Illinois’ finances being managed responsibly. The state’s mortgage is so far behind that JB the Hutt would have to tax residents of neighboring states to keep up the payments. Of course the bailouts from Uncle Fed show this to already be happening. Illinois is beyond broke. Only bankruptcy can save the state, since Illinois’ Constitution forbids any sensible pension reform and the members… Read more »
The state has great power to raise taxes or cut spending. No need for bankruptcy just because you want to steal from pensioners. Either we pay more taxes now or pay even more later.