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.
As an example. Where I live, north central Illinois we have a single high school district, one HS with about 2200 students. A district superintendent plus staff. There are 4 feeder schools all their own district each with a district superintendent and staff. One has two elementary schools, one has one elementary school, one has 4 elementary schools and one has three. So 5 district superintendents along with the associated staffs and budgets. A few million dollars in salaries to pay all of the costs of pensions health care etc. Consolidation would save lots of cash. 1 district with a… Read more »
And absolutely nothing will be done about it ever