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.
Nope. All they have to do is make significant cuts to pensions and health care benefits, and you’ll have no more population decline. If you think that’s heartless, it’s not. Cut the pensions and benefits by 50 percent, and those retirees would still have better retirement packages than most American workers.