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.
This is the direct result of the failure of Chicago schools to educate an entire generation. Those former students cannot get a college degree because the don’t even have the basic knowledge for a high school diploma- they “graduated” from high school only because their name was on a list.
Yep and their teachers didn’t want to have deal with them for another year.
Well, the idea is one that I think makes some sense. Having a college degree does not necessarily mean anything for many jobs. In a reasonable-common-sense world that would be true, however, In practice in Chicago, the concern is, that it will be an open door to expand the hiring of friends and relatives as well as the totally unqualified simply because of their race, gender, or other crap this state and city government thinks is important. If implemented without any controls or ability to easily cull people who are not correct for the job, this will simply be a… Read more »