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.
My middle finger can plug it.
Alakazam!
Three quarters of a billion dollars suddenly appeared out of thin air. Mayor Cliff Notes can continue to pay his masters in the CTU.
Need to lay off 1,000’s of teachers.
Well, sure, but these are the Mayor’s union friends. Also, how to remove the incompetent teachers while retaining the helpful ones?
And shutter a bunch of underutilized schools.
These actions are intended to address this year… What about next year? The fact still remains, that there needs to be dramatic cuts in staff and services to refocus on education. The district needs to educate, not baby sit. But hey, guess we will worry about that next year…
Mayor Cliff Notes has never had a responsible position in the private sector, so the idea of planning for tomorrow or next week, much less next year is not a concept he grasps.
This must be the dizzying intellect he told us we were jealous of.
Did the tooth fairy visit them last night?
So we can cut most of the $734, and find the rest in slop from the TIF funds, and like magic, the budget problem is solved. And there is no negative impact on classroom expenditures. What does that tell you about how much fat has been in this budget all along. Almost a billion dollars just showed up like fairy dust.