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.
The unions refuse to negotiate claw backs of legislative benefit hikes to the Chicago Teachers Pension Fund.
But the unions were perfectly happy to lobby for and receive legislative pension benefit hikes while the pensions were already underfunded.
The same scenario applies to the other 18 pension funds in the Illinois Pension Code.
The legislators and union lobbyists conspired to rip off the taxpayers.