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.
A lengthy article illuminating the Chicago Public Schools challenges facing Johnson, that doesn’t once mention the fact that CPS has proven incapable of teaching kids to read, write and add at grade level at vast and crippling taxpayer expense.
Over 80% of CPS students ‘graduate’ from high school even though well over two thirds of them have failed to achieve academic goals, and almost half have been chronically truant.
Not a word about about those facts from our union friends at the Sun Times, and not by accidental omission either.
What’s next? Bankruptcy
Mayor Johnson is beholden to CTU, needs to “make good” on huge huge huge CTU campaign financial and manpower contributions towards his successful election.
Await huge huge huge concessions to CTU.
And remember, 80% of Chicago revenues go towards funding pensions, but pensions are only 25% funded on average. Look for RE Taxes to double within next two years.