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.
cha ching, cha ching, you voted for this clown, no pay up!
The City somehow agreed to these ridiculous terms which is the pathetic part of the entire process. Tax payers only have a voice during elections, the rest of the time, the gerrymandered elections and the elected officials who are funded by these unions make these decisions. And my goodness…What a surprise, they provide more and more and more of everything to their supporters…forgetting completely about the tax payer. To them, the tax payer is a rube who is simply the bank for their made up operation. Until voters put others in place at the local and state level that will… Read more »
Teachers do not deserve a dime until they start doing their jobs and student test scores improve.
Nope. Police get paid even when they are not able to prevent crime. Doctors get paid even when their patients refuse to take their advice and eat healthy, exercise and lose weight.. Teachers also get paid if students refuse to show up to class and learn.
I finally figured it out. All of your posts repeatedly defend CTU, their salaries, their pensions, their poor educational performance and CTU spending. Never any criticism. You must be Stacy Davis Gates’ husband!!
Hmm.. but do we lower the standards of police, physicians etc. enabling them to do an inferior job? If you recall, there is a constant push to lower the standards of what it requires to become an educator as well as lower the bar as to what constitutes a student educated to their grade level, pushed by the CTU and National Federation of Teachers, no less. Police and doctors can be stripped of their jobs, and go to jail, due to investigations and rulings by an outside entity. Not so for teachers.
The floggings will not abate until morale improves?
I believe a government forensic audit should be done on the CTU/CPS. There seems to be a bottomless pit of spending going on and Illinois lawmakers are gutless to do anything about the union/voters.
Spending is not illegal and does not require an investigation.
Misspending tax dollars is illegal however. Ask “Supermayor” Tiffany about that.
So prove they misspent tax dollars. Either way, that has nothing to do with teachers being paid what they are contractually owed.
Let’s see what they are spending what on. Then let a court if necessary decide. You ,being either a teacher or ex teacher and staunch democrat wouldn’t find anything inappropriate.
I am neither a teacher, ex teacher or a Democrat. You are confused because I believe in the constitution and the rights it bestows on the people of this great country. Even though in this case it means protecting teacher pensions.
Don’t you worry though. If CPS doesn’t pay teachers what they are contractually owed then the courts will definitely require payment.
at a certain point your eyes glaze over and even avid readers like me can’t keep up with or where all the $100s of millions are going…..in the clown show/ con job known as CPS!!!