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.
How dare these lowly public employees attempt to get a raise. The nerve of these people. They should just work for whatever scraps are offered.
No, they should get a real job that you have to work at in the private sector. Most would be fired in the first month.
Scraps such as “…racial justice, climate justice and immigration…”, right Mr./Mrs./Ms. state retiree?
Why should CPS be the only school district to run out of operating money when there are so many other waiting to be plundered?
Maybe you missed the part about a radical political agenda used as part of the “bargaining” process.
Gosh, Randi Weingarten resigned her role in the DNC. Did you see her performance at the “No Kings” rally in Philadelphia? The DNC is losing a real artiste.
Maybe Becky Pringle can take her place. Because the leaders of teacher unions should definitely be involved in partisan politics, while they “negotiate” their deals. And claim “it’s for the chillldrennn!”
The lust for more money is never ending.
This is why public unions should be illegal.
That’s what FDR warned about.
So instead of a city of worthless money grabbing teachers we’ll now have a state full
Like the measles and TB we are seeing spread due to “ new arrivals “ , so will the socialism/ soft communism of the CTU into the rest of IL.