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.
Its like one of the movies. You have to find an accountant with terminal cancer and promise to take care of his family if he signs off on it.
Had enough transparency regarding your “ seven years in a row “ balanced budget yet, IL?
It takes time to find a CPA that will sign off on this report. The state is in dire straits and is hiding it from everyone. The truth be known Illinois is already bankrupt and cannot pay its future obligations. The taxpayer is really screwed now.
Sheila Weinberg & Mendoza do a great job explaining what a con job joke the budgets are on G. Bishop-Illinois in Focus
Illinois releases audit for 770-day-old spending plan(https://youtu.be/p725AgxECPc?si=xkSpfYsKI851aS7x)
I see WP already previously posted, well worth listen.
Big point, by Weinberg, is the total state debt is “net position” $195 bil, not just included $145 pension debt for 2023. But who knows for 2024 as JB & pols claim balanced budgets, borrow, etc.? (I assume added net position debt is primarily due to OPED?)