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.
The Sun times is very very Leftist. So this to come from them is most telling.
JB should ask his minions to pass a (at least temporary) state wide real-estate tax freeze so Chicago can’t just raise it’s taxes on the people to pay for this and must address the real problem.
Here’s an article from the Trib about the schools.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/editorial-lessons-detroit-chicago-public-100000085.html
JB knows if he caves to CTU and gives CPS the $1.1 bil they’re demanding to fund all the CTU CRAZY demands (9% raises, keeping all the empty schools open, hiring a ton new CTU teachers, etc, etc) under the guise of EBF then that will set the standard state wide in all Illinois CRAZY +600 school district for teachers to ask for same deals going forward. Asking for 9% raises will become the norm!!! Probably 9% raises will become the norm for all Illinois CRAZY +7,000 units of gov for that matter as well. I’m still confused how 9%… Read more »
Or, precedent wiil be set where all the other teachers unions negotiating contracts with 852 Illinois school districts will insist districts take out high interest loans to pay for 9% pay raises, etc justified under EBFs. As it looks like there’s nothing stopping CTU/Brandon & crew from getting there way and taking out high interest loans, taxpayers be damned.