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.
HOW ABOUT ENHANCING SOCIAL SECURITY????
Well, there goes the fully funded pensions by 2050! LOL
Long-term thinking is not what where elected officials spend their time or efforts, and I think you know that well enough already. They want “the best bang for the buck” in terms of their own job security, and that means prefering to think short-term. Has it ever been otherwise?
Exactly. As long as they succeed in ignoring the pension shortfalls, they will keep or expand for their own benefit.