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.
Pathetic. $40M. Forty Million Dollars for a friggin sports complex for a broke public school district already over charging property owners… A new form or organized crime.
Welch, a fine member of the usual gang of idiots.
Emmanuel was one key to IL eliminating the Invest In Kids program that served about 9000 economically disadvantaged kids living in areas with poor local public schools. Multiple Catholic and other private schools closed as a direct result and those kids were forced to change sculls, many or most back to the poor local public school they had tried to avoid. Swell guy.
Wasn’t Emanuel long gone when that happened?
Meant Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch, who sends his own kids to a private school.
Of course he will get away with it. Do any responsible journalists in Illinois other than Wirepoints and The Illinois Policy Institute cover this? Of course not. This is another prime example of how government in Illinois has been corrupted so badly largely due to an irresponsible press. They are lazy, compromised and ineffective to say the least.
Would be nice if schools were rewarded with better facilities based on good academic results (as determined by ACT or SAT) instead of just who you know in the state.