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.
Who doesn’t increase staff by 20% when your customers decrease by 10%? That tells you all you need to know that it has nothing to do with the “kids”.
With nosediving CPS enrollment, how many of increased staff are justified by EBF? How many of increased staff are funded with ESSER COVID funds?….same questions for all the other CRAZY +600 Illinois school districts? Does any pol or press care?