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.
A combination progressive tax and pension reform amendment? Does anyone actually believe that we would get anything except (1) an immediate tax increase and (2) a promise to address the pension issue in the future?
If “conservatives” are stupid enough to fall for that, they deserve whatever they get. Good and hard.
There is no “move” other than reining in salaries, pensions, and health care benefits. Therefore, it’s funny to see Chicago, which has no money, asking IL, which has no money, for help.
‘Lightfoot isn’t optimistic. “The practical matter is that if you don’t rein in the size of the growth in pension liabilities, all of these other things are just nibbling around the edges,” she said.’ It’s always fun for me to watch progressive politicians say one thing on the campaign trail, and then win office and be subject to the realities of governing. I get to watch the dismay of the progressive fanboys and girls. You can literally see that happy smile go to a confused frown when their candidate starts to sound like a somber conservative. It’s like they’re not… Read more »
Jabba just wants people to like him. That’s why he spends his own money on lavish parties and funneled tends of millions of the media in the form of campaign ads and spends the tax payer money on unions and other victims of class oppression.