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 author makes a good empirical case for lost bond proceeds. I still can’t past that The state of Illinois is likely paying 40 percent of its budget on pension and opeb pbligations. And the numbers will get become worse, with no fair tax being able to come close to drawing down the debt. Residents with means at some point will not pay for services long ago provided. Throw in the corruption, and a remaining population with a heavy reliance on social services, and lost bond proceeds, while regrettable, seem to be minor in comparison.