Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer: Spencer Pratt in Los Angeles Mayoral Race Offers Chicago a Blueprint
June 4, 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.
This is yet another article that implies that IL can tax its way out of this pension and free health care unfunded liability mess. As wirepoints noted many times, that won’t happen without major pension and health care benefits reforms. Also, it’s laughable to read such articles that ignore what really needs to be done: pension and health care benefits reforms. Does any learned person think that continually increasing taxes are the solution? Once again, IL residents already realize that they’re over-taxed. Increasing taxes on residents who already have the highest or near-highest overall tax rates in the country will… Read more »
Martire has a point, but if the concern is stability, the move to tax services should be a revenue neutral one. In other words, reduce the overall sales tax on goods and apply whatever rate to services that, overall, would generate the same amount of sales tax revenue we do today.
Remember, when Bruce was first elected, he was considering a tax on some services.