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.
a union. With $700K to fund election activities. Does anyone else see the issue? This is just a vicious cycle. Bet all of the supported candidates are former union members…
Actually, if memory serves, three are SJW’s ( professional agitators with little/ no business experience) , one was a former teacher ( no bias there ) and two were connected to city government in some capacity previously ( what one might term as someone that has an “in”)
Just fire some teachers and administration, that’ll cover it.
Not going to happen. Even if it did you would only be able to fire the lowest paid teachers. You think the district decides which teachers it would fire? LOL. The highest paid shall remain on the payroll.
Raise taxes, use TIF funds or go deeper in debt. Did I mention raising taxes?
My home goes up a dollar for every dollar the City of Chicago taxes residents. Parents all flee the CTU and pay half a million dollars for a 1,000 sq ft split level in my neighborhood.
You know the end game is, right? You need only look at Baltimore or Cleveland to understand what Chicago’s future looks like, and it’s bleak.