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.
Here’s a thought…live within the budget like everyone else does, but no. If we gave them all the money in the world…it would still not be enough. This failed organization spends a range between $3400 and $40K per student. $7.7B budget. Insane. The amount of waste and corruption is incomprehensible.
Gosh. Here’s a coupla ideas: Maybe closing all the schools with enrollment at a fraction of capacity? And maybe firing a bunch of teachers? And firing much of the bloated administration at HQ?
Lori will show everyone she supports education. She’s going to pick CPS clean to the bone. Nobody will notice! She’s going to steal all of it before the moolinyan of the elected board get their claws into it. Everything will be fine until CPS can’t meet their payroll. Then……?
My understanding is that CPS enjoys a special status inasmuch as there is a requirement to raise property taxes on property owners if the schools have a budget shortfall. This is from memory so I could be wrong.
I think you are correct. CPS is simply one of many political organizations who can raise taxes on a whim. Special status! It won’t stop the democrats from picking the schools down to the marrow.