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.
“Althea McCaskill has been a bus aide with Chicago Public Schools for 10 years and makes about $16,000 a year…she is paid for four hours.” According to the CPS-SEIU contract, a bus aide makes $19.80/hr, or $80/day. I get that there’s not much time during the middle of the day to work another job, but that’s why CPS pays a premium of nearly $20/hr. How much do we have to pay people to work a few hours a day with extended summer and holiday breaks? Should someone only working 4 hours per day be expected to be the breadwinner of… Read more »