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 bankruptcy possible. Just more taxes for you idiots that live there. But hey, you must like it.
Not only Chicago, but the whole State of Illinois is going bankrupt.
Overly Generous pensions is an understatement.
The debt is so large, it will likely never be paid for.
The cost is not only the pension underfunding amount but add to it the lost tax revenue from high-income earners and businesses fleeing the state because of it.
The CPS went broke in late 1979. Mayor Jane Byrne ordered the Police Pension Fund to “invest” in public school bonds so the teachers could get paid. The chaos and turmoil Mayor Byrne presided over is a children’s party compared to the City’s problems today. The one common factor is the failure of education.
“In 2022, retirement benefits and debt service accounted for 43 percent of the city’s budget.”
“On average, 49 percent of 911 calls seem to go unanswered…”
“The City that Works”, yeah?
Works well for the average City of Chicago employee earning $98,508 a year plus benes and future pension.
“Bigger, better, safer?” I don’t think so.
Health care benefits for retired city employees was dropped by Daley 2.
Cops still get health care benefits after retirement.
Gone when you turn 65. Rahm eliminated it and bragged about doing it.