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.
Just break the contracts, break the promises and take our pensions away, right corporatists?
Sometimes the “must-do’s” trump the “should-do’s.” Whatever one thinks about honoring pension obligations, the math just doesn’t work for it to happen. That’s largely what this site is about.
No matter how small the reforms are the pols will tell us how great they are and our dumb voters will believe them.