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.
It’s safe to say that Dem majority legislators and their constituents don’t care one iota about fiscal sanity anymore. But their constituents apparently care a lot about bathrooms. One legislator said he had hundreds of phone calls asking the government to pass a law allowing little girls and grown men to use the same bathrooms.
Seem Hinz is only one writing/warning about state bill to overturn Chicago cop & fire Tier Ii pensions….which anyone with a clue understands the bill is just a “test the waters” bill to see if dullard voters/taxpayers care or even notice. And then dem machine will shoot for passing overall state bill overturning Tier Ii in 24 (as rumored in Bondbuyer). CTUs lobbying in Springfield on this currently with nothing to stop them because “new machine”/old machine control 100% of state…just got to dupe the chumbalones as usual. Fake- progressive CTU/Brandon will be all on board. At least lightfoot put… Read more »
“Other, more suspicious types suspect the [$12 billion financial plan released by his supporters] was one big trial balloon, or intended to give Johnson political cover when he rolls out something more moderate.” Hmm, who would that be?