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.
This is another attempt to move higher salaries out and place the burden of funding their continued support on the pension funds and the tax paying public. The last 5 plus 5 option in the late 90’s taught the retirees a needed lesson in the cost of individual health insurance. In our district, two principals whose salaries topped $100,000 took menial or entry lever hourly work to maintain employer group coverage. One went to Walmart as a greeter and the second more arrogant one went back to the school he led as a hall and lunchroom monitor where he also… Read more »
First rule of ERO’s: If everyone’s taking it, it’s too generous. In Illinois, everyone takes it.
All early retirement options do is shift the tax burden from the locals to the state. And the only way it saves any money is if that position is never refilled, which is rarely the case.
The house of cards that is Tier 2 “savings” is crumbling as we speak.
Just going to quicken the total collapse of Illinois.
Yeah, we know, it’s more fun not working for a living than working for a living, especially when you have your unduly large pension waiting for you.
They’re union teachers, they’ve never done a day of work in their lives
It certainly appears that there is more energy among our politicians to improve tier 2 pensions than there is to take from pensioners. Improving pension benefits is more likely than trying to steal from existing pensioners. Such is Illinois.