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.
Gosh – They have to hurry before the Covid Money runs out to fill the $700M deficit. These rocket scientists on the board spent Covid money on programs and services that require continued annual funding. Covid money should have only been used to pay for one time or maybe 2 year budgeted expenditures. So, now somehow this is an emergency for the rest of the friggin state to pay for these morons graft and corruption. Close it and leave it all closed. But really, who am I kidding, the state legislature will figure out how to have a backroom cigar… Read more »
Close underused facilities.
Before more money is given to CPS, CPS needs to be fiscally responsible. Close underutilized schools first, along with the staff fo these empty schools. More money hasn’t improved student test scores.
More money will never solve Illinois problem since politicians no nothing else in this god forsaken state but spend spend spend with the same outcome every time for everyone.
In 2018 our legislators came up with a Plan to fund the poorest school districts. The poorest school districts are called tier1. In 2018 there were 312 tier1 school districts. After 8 years of Evidence-based funding there are 324 school districts. Chicago school district 299 is tier2. The main reason for the failure of the EBF plan is because the New Money that is given to school districts each year are not indexed for inflation!! The $307,000,000 of new money fy2026 is not even close to being enough funding. Our schools will never come close to being funded properly at… Read more »
The Titanic was sinking because the water rushed over the bulkheads that were to short,
in kind the water is rushing over the CPS
bulkheads. Lets start waving bye-bye!
Don’t look now, but the “ rednecks “ in MO that so many Illinoisans love to look down upon just had their governor expand alternative schooling and is giving serious consideration to closing underused/ unused schools in St. Louis, something arrogant people on this side of the Mississippi won’t even allow to be discussed. The deplorables could show blue states a thing or two about finances.