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.
“While (reading and math) proficiency rates in Illinois have remained flat, they have also flattened out or even declined in other states, which has had the effect of boosting Illinois’ national ranking.”
Illinois’ definition of progress
Maybe the state hold teachers accountable for student test scores and for chronic absenteeism IL should require that teachers teach, and stop being political activists.
What, throwing money ate the problem doesn’t work????
Someone better tell the CTU.