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 much of that $360k is pensionable?
No surprises here. It’s the Illinois public sector way.
Quick bleed the system before it fails and it will fail.
Re: Jermiagh Daly’s 2024 compensation of $360k
The attached link will take you to the collective bargaining agreement (“CBA”) between the State and the Operating Engineers union.
On page 6 of the CBA you’ll find the overtime provisions of the agreement.
If you’re an Illinois taxpayer employed in the private sector, read it and weep.
Yet another example of the sweetheart relationship between Illinois government and the unions that do business with the State.
https://cms.illinois.gov/content/dam/soi/en/web/cms/personnel/employeeresources/documents/23-27/Signed%20Operating%20Engineers%2024.27%20Contract.pdf
There are far too many examples of the State of Illinois mismanaging taxpayer funds. Mismanagement can be due to corruption, greed, ineptitude, or some combination of those unsavory traits.