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.
Budgeting with “anticipated stimulus funds” seems rather odd being the funding might not be forthcoming and how will the never ending greed of the teachers be satisfied after the funding that does come is spent? Chicago economics in action must be based upon the new common core math.
Why not close the budget gap by planning on finding oil underneath one of the CPS schools? Or winning the lottery? Or plan on having a meteor made of gold crash into a CPS building? If any private corporation was as irresponsible and dishonest in budgeting as CPS, Chicago or Illinois they’d be in jail