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.
Pour Mueller from that access journalism left-wing rag, has a great piece on this. And by Great, I mean, he outs himself as the fool he is. He flippantly says “but whatevs” to Kiplingers’ opinion and then says that the graduated tax (note no one describes it as progressive anymore) would have “eventually eventually eased all those issues”….
And to this pure unadulterated stupidity, the only response we have is: Sure, whatevs you say, dummy!
This may be one reason taxes are so high.. I can’t get you there by link. Go to Better Government Association (www.bettergov.org) Click Data&Tools dropdown box click pensions. Scroll down and on left side of screen find and click State Universities(Surs) Then look at top right and click to 2020 and scroll down. First pensioner is Leslie Heffez and in a little over a month (2022) pension will be $673,801.77. Final salary $763K. Hope this works. If you scroll down on names take a look at how many make $200K plus. It takes a while. This is only SURS but… Read more »
Thanks, Kiplinger, but those of us who live in Illinois already knew that.