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.
Not a problem. Your minions (Taxpayers) have more money than any good communist is allowed. They will happily make up the shortfall. If they had any self respect, back bone or intelligence they would have done something about it years ago. They did nothing and stayed put. So they now need to pay.
Time for Springfield to start planning on some more bookkeeping moves to make all this disappear..
The public employee unions are fat, dumb, and happy so who cares about budget deficits? No Democrat stooge of the public employee unions has ever been held accountable for budget malfeasance.
Spend a billion or more tax dollars on illegal aliens and then have a budget shortfall…..AMAZING!
I pledge $1 to help Taxistan with its massive budget shortfall.
So glad I voted with my feet over 20 years ago!!
Bloat costs money – lots of it.
Just keep borrowing money as long as you can. Get out of town before the debt comes due. This is the Illinois way.
2 terms 267 million shortfall. Can Illinois afford another Putzger term ?
Maybe that’s why his own family won’t let him anywhere near the family business. If he had a corner lemonade stand he would go bankrupt in a day.