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.
Hire someone with financial and school management experience. Paul Vallas?
Fewer crossing guards? How disingenuous. Everyone knows that wouldn’t put a dent in the budget. How irresponsible can CPS be by laying off the very-low-paid crossing guards, thereby endangering the safety of children? How about laying off 1 teacher, so 5 crossing guards can keep their jobs?
They do it on purpose. It’s the hostage puppy strategy. Give us more money, or bad things will happen to the cute helpless creatures. They always threaten the weakest who have the least influence.
Changes are 10,000 more teachers sitting in their ass doing nothing but getting paid
They won’t see any fewer empty buildings being powered and open for less than half their capacity or any fewer staffers standing around idly.
The parents can take comfort knowing that their children’s teachers are among the highest paid in the nation, all the while maintaining a non-existent standard of excellence in the classroom.
How about closing under enrolled schools??? Save MILLIONS OF DOLLARS THERE . CTU only cares about itself not what is best for the “CHILDREN.”
Thumbs Down obviously a CTU member or some other type of stooge. Who knew Stacy reads Wirepoints? Who knew Stacy reads at all? Her math skills are certainly lacking.