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.
“Starved of investment”. Give me a break. Success in school starts with teachers who can teach (CTU, this one is on you!). Success in school is likely strongly correlated to the value a given set (mother and father) of parents places on performance in school…
Instead of blaming a lack of funding look at the teachers and the parents…
It is mind boggling, in the age of almost unfettered access to information, that we blame this on a lack of funding.
There is no amount of money that would be enough. Give it all to them, every last dime – still would not be enough. Lets do this…We all work and give them our entire incomes and we live in a box under an overpass and it STILL would not be enough. School districts are a bottomless pit of cost and when they get to the point they have spent it all…they come up with another “program” and come back to the tax payers for more. No one ever tells them NO in Illinois. It will never end, there will never… Read more »