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.
I’m waiting for the machine ghouls to use anti-Trump / DOGE as cover, as an attack on the “working man” rhetoric, to ram thru HB5909/ TIER 2 “fix” with dopey taxpayer/voters to brain dead to notice whats hit-em as usual. JB’s pretty much the only one stopping the machine (Martwick, Kifowits, etc crew) from passing HB5909/ TIER 2 “fix”. If JB’s national ambitions lead him to decide he has a better chance pursuing presidential run by replacing Durbin than being associated as gov of fiscal disaster and he hangs it up as gov, then watch machines pass HB5909/ TIER 2… Read more »
100% for sure the Taxpayer will not benefit in any way. Never has never will.
looks like those who work in these systems, less than 10 years ,would prefer a portable retirement plans, like an IRA or 401 k
But then the democrat politicians and the union stooges don’t have a piggy bank to steal from.