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.
What planet are these people on? The last six years have been disastrous for Illinois schools.
The results were disastrous, from our perspective, because performance did not improve under the Evidence Based Funding Formula. But the promise of the law was to close the funding and achievement gaps, not increase achievement. (“…its promise of closing Illinois’ drastic funding and achievement gaps between schools in property-rich and property-poor districts…”) The reality is that the communists have redistributed money from rich to poor and reduced everyone’s scores. Poor districts have more money and the performance gap between them is now smaller!! The law has been a success. This what communism does. Communists say “give me power and I’ll… Read more »