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.
He’s a tax and spend clown, its pretty hard to screw this “crisis” up, he’s just following the lead of other blue state governors. He hasn’t done anything out of the ordinary or revolutionary, other than keep the primaries going even though large gatherings were not recommended…
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Bravo! That’s a good managerial posture as far as I’m concerned. Here is a piece called “Pension Puffery.” Let’s see how broad-minded Wirepoints readers really are, shall we? As the actor Daniel Day Lewis once said in a movie: “There will be blood”!
https://www.governing.com/columns/public-money/col-pension-puffery.html
I’ve read this article and will say that it is a good comprehensive coverage. I will also say that item number one of any government pension reform is elimination of ALL public sector unions. The root source cause of the government pensions mess is the corruption that is inevitible when public sector unions exist.
Bust the government unions to end the cycle of corruption and prevent it from re emerging. Period.
That 7-year old article is horribly outdated. Some of it is generally true and some not, some pertains to IL but some not. Not worth time looking at.