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.
They could try pawn shops or Goodwill, where a laptop complete with a CPS ownership sticker firmly and visibly attached was discovered and pictured.
Chicago solution: bury that investigation. And quickly.
Pathetic. First provide the equipment to students paid for by tax payers. Parents and students have nothing invested and no penalties for loss. Then have 77,000 devices disappear from 2021 and 2022 school year. Their answer, buy more, give them out, with no additional commitment or investment by the student or parent… 77,000 Chromebooks at $350 or so each is almost $27M – Stolen. CPS doesn’t really care, because the majority of that cost is paid by a federal program called Erate. Erate is funded through taxation of your cell and cable TV services. Billions of dollars. So, CPS likely… Read more »