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 payouts are much lower than what most Illinois pensioners get. In a broader report, the average pension benefit for state and local public employees in Illinois was given as $3,129 per month or about $37,547 annually (for the group overall) in one “Pensionomics” analysis.
This is what the cops, teachers and firemen should get paid and then they would be funded. Many of them get over $100,000 per year.