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 wifes gig job is shut down. Im gratefull the small company i work for keeps me going working from home but dont know for how much longer because they have no business. And we’re still waiten for are donnie $ers….but meanwhile, just like 9 years ago when i spent a month at home between jobs, my city/state worker neighboors are all at home, puttering around on thier home renovation jobs , hobbies, etc….no worries, no layoffs, no sacrifice–the check keep rollen in. We politely exchange pleasantries, ask about the kids, or comment on weather, etc…but in reallity know we… Read more »
Chumps like us have sleepless nights when it looks like we could lose our job through no fault of our own. Virtually of all of us in private industry have been there one time or another. And many of us multiple times. How blissful it must be to secure a state job at 21 and know for the next 35 years you have the ultimate job security. Then retire with an annual raise. It’s good to be a privileged state union worker until the greed of the worker and his union kill the goose.
Gov Jelly Belly will wait for a Dem House, Senate and Prez and beg for a bailout.
Jabba’s plan is to drive Illinois bankrupt and then go to the feds and whine that Illinois is too big to fail. He’ll say an Illinois bankruptcy would damage the national economy so the only solution is to give Illinois a blank check without any reforms
And if that fails there is plenty of real estate to tax and/or confiscate.
That would be a nice plan if Illinois were alone but there will be several large states plus hundreds of cities and counties all failing at once. Illinois may fail first but the rest of the avalanche will be right behind. In the face of such catastrophic failure the Federal government will be unable to help anyone. The good news is that most of the failure will be in long term pension obligations so those most hurt will be the true villains: retirement funds of AFSCME, SEIU and the Teachers Unions.
He wants the state to fail and therefore see if the Federal Government will Magically bail him out. When you are this trust fund baby you do not know how to manage life or a state or many things properly.
Taxes are paid from the Magic Money Pile all businesses have. Just feed a biscuit to the unicorn guarding the pile of cash and fill up the wheelbarrow!