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.
And as usual Pritzker puts Susana on stage and all we hear is ole susana won’t you cry for me.
Too late Susana, that money has been spent twice already! JB and the gang are about to declare that it is party time, Illinois style!!!
Mendoza’s stating it as clear as day, the $7 billion the state’s slated to receive in fed bailout dosent even cover state cash accounting $9 billion current debt–“The Comptroller’s records list the state’s backlog of unpaid bills at higher than $4.7 billion dollars. However, she says that figure is actually closer to $9 billion after accounting for recent emergency borrowing from the federal government.” Or in reality the $7 billion in fed bailout is nothing more than a minor dent in Illinois astronomical pension debt to upperincome & multi-millionaire public sector retiries and has nothing to do with relief to… Read more »