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.
“the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU), representing more than 25,000 teachers and the roughly 400,000 students and families they serve,”
LOL Roughly? Nice spin. CPS enrollment last year was 361,314. That’s “roughly” 350,000 students.
“In Chicago, Mayor Rahm Emanuel told countless parents and teachers that he could not afford to raise teacher pay and keep their schools open. Out of the other side of his mouth, however, he offered a more than $2 billion “incentive package” to Amazon — the wealthiest company in the world, which pays an effective tax rate of zero.” Luckily, Amazon didn’t get that tax break. As for the socialist perspective, it’s kind of ironic that the teachers who literally destroyed public education are the sames ones demanding more pay, and more staff (ie union members) to fix the very… Read more »
And in that entire field, I don’t see a single leader. Every one of them is just jumping from one bandwagon to another.