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.
As soon as we pay of legacy debt and other things, we’re going to fund the pensions 100%. So never, right JB?
Is this some type of joke? Illinois will never get pensions 100% funded before a bankruptcy or restructuring.
JB Pritzker is seemingly innumerate. Illinois is generations away from 100% pension funding.