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.
The increase in higher ed funding they’re requesting in less than the yearly increase in funding for SURS. In other words, they could easily have more money for for all these wonderful programs like MAP grants, diversity programs, teacher incentives, etc if it wasn’t for those darn pensions.