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.
Has Rockford or any city stopped offering a pension to new hires?
That would be a good start
Sorry, state mandate says can’t do that.
Why fix anything. Let it burn down…sad. Really sad.
While it’s not a fix, perhaps pension payments can be frozen if pensioners move out of state.
Pensioners don’t lose contractual rights simply for moving to another state.