Mark joined Shaun to explain how Illinois lowered its pension debt by increasing its bond debt and other fiscal follies. Click here to listen.
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.
Nothing but generational theft.
Beautiful. Insolvency here we come
Credit cycling is the next step to junk bond status and, eventually, insolvency.