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.
Four Words: Teachers Unions Own the Democrats. Bust public sector unions. As predicted by FDR they are a poison upon America.
Because it would require holding the parents and the teachers accountable.
Because it’s politically incorrect to identify poor performances.
Because purpose of public school systems is to provide permanent employment without imposing performance requirements.
Because Teacher Unions are a substantial source of campaign funding for politicians.
Woodson is a national treasure. Of course, his voice and voices like his are rarely published or heard in Chicago.
Bob Woodson, Thomas Sowell, Glen Loury, etc. can dismantle every progressive talking point with the sharpest rhetoric. Sadly, they would receive the “black face of white supremacy” Larry Elder treatment by the young black progressive leaders of this city who ironically, are the very examples of the success-despite-circumstances people Woodson et al are talking about.
Not true! Winning is contagious. The people running this city aren’t leaders.
This is great!