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.
Sorry PPF, looks like the program was oversubscribed with people just like you.
“When the people find that they can vote themselves money from the Treasury, that will hearld the end of the Republic;”
Benjamin Franklin.
Yes sir old Joe. Almost half of the federal budget is spent on vote buying give aways around social security and government provided healthcare like Medicare. The old people have become so addicted to living on these hand outs that riots in the streets would happen immediately if this gravy train ever ended or was even cut in the slightest. The best part is that they complain about welfare while their very existence depends on welfare. Oh these freeloaders will try to tell you that they “paid into it and it’s their money” but the reality is that the money… Read more »
Read your tirade – you strike me as one unhappy person.
Hope your life improves.
No tirade just facts. I agree with Joe and many others that believe one of the weaknesses of our government is the ability of the voters to vote themselves money from the treasury. There is no better example of this than Social Security. Those that pay less in SS taxes receive a greater percentage back or ROI on those taxes. It is a system designed so that almost everyone pays in so they feel it’s not welfare when in fact it is a welfare program for the old. It was implemented as a vote buying scheme and any mention of… Read more »
I disagree that social security is a welfare program disguised as social insurance. The way SS is funded is more like a ponzi scheme that requires current employees to fund the payments to former workers, but that doesn’t make it welfare. Welfare is a means tested social welfare program for the poor that doesn’t require contributions and in theory goes only to the most needy. Social security has no means testing and it requires a lifetime of payments into the system to get a benefit out. That’s why illegal immigrants, tax cheats, and so on don’t get SS checks because… Read more »
Still hoping your life improves. Hoping all our lives improve.
you get a 1.4% chance at guaranteed peanuts while our public sec hero are guaranteed the moon w Amendment 1!! sure-nuff /down on the farm –equity Illinois style proper!!!!