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.
Too busy hating Trump. Johnson will surely blame DJT for occupying all of his time.
Pensions costs will destroy Chicago and Illinois.
Will, already has.
Jelly Belly said he signed it because he didn’t hear any objections from Pinhead. Trusting any public policy to him is a prima facie showing of incompetence.Of course, the Chicago voters’ incompetence did come first.
Perhaps this is the canary in the coal mine. Now that this has been signed into law, per the Illinois Constitution it cannot be impaired or reduced. Next, we will have other Tier 2 pension participants want their pensions to be the same. Maybe they get it maybe they don’t. Perhaps this will bring the whole pension clause protection to a head and they actually change the constitution.
The gub hates the mayor. Plain and simple. Putzger wants this guy to fail
Hoping he’ll fail is like betting on the iceberg instead of the Titanic.
Pritzker had the chance to be the adult in the room. Why would he even need input from the city on this? Pritzker wanted to do this. Now was part of his decision to sign the bill simply to stick it to Johnson? Seems like it was on the list of reasons to sign. Of course, he’s not really sticking it to Johnson because it’s “his people, working families” who foot the bill.
For this lifelong Chicago senior, JB signing HB3657 is the final straw from CTU/Brandon, to Martwick, to almost all the Republicans who voted in favor that any of these ghouls gives a flying-f about any dopey taxpayer/homeowner chumbalones. Truely political violence, political RAPE, on an epic scale……EQUITY!!!!