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.
CPS might as well hire a traveling circus to teach in the public schools of Chicago. The results would be about the same.
If I join the union today, do they wait until August to start charging me dues? Of course not. So if I leave the union today, I should not have to pay through the end of some arbitrary term.
CTU is going to spend millions of $ in legal fees to fight these cases and they will most certainly lose. The Janus ruling is very clear and other unions have already fought and lost this same battle. But the deep contempt and arrogance of CTU will compel them to spend other peoples money out of sheer spite. They are living in a fantasyland. Have at it Sharkey.