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.
Better idea – Force JB to create a fund, controlled by some state agency, that can be used by all future governors to supplement gubernatorial staff salaries.
After all, once JB leaves office, how is his replacement going to staff? The new kids are going to take a 50% pay cut. Race to the bottom!
Well, one way to be sure there are no whistleblowers is to pay people off.
Fixed the headline for you:
“Failed Governor Pritzker’s Shady Salary Shell Game Scam”
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Why doesn’t Plummer call this what it is – bribery. Or hush money. How can anyone think allowing the governor to pay public employees is ethical?
JB’s extra salary is designed to make his employees loyal to him instead of the state of Illinois.