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.
Close the CPS and test scores will rise.
This is what we call “A good Start”
CPS needs to close the underutilized schools in Chicago and lay off the staff who work in these schools. But CTU won’t allow that!
OMG!!! 7 CTU members laid off!!!, and they’re already challenging per their contract
Nothing in the contract prevents laying off staff for budget reasons. However it sounds like now is not the time to think of cutting spending as they want to look at more revenue options. It’s always a balance between cutting or raising taxes. We will find out over the next couple months which strategy is chosen.
Oh oh. Stacey will stamp her feet and scream bloody murder…..as soon as she’s done enrolling her son in private school
9,000 hired during COVID need to go.
And still 20(?) schools sit less than half full yet fully staffed and funded. What a piece of cake those positions must be.
“So, when the times are getting hard, it’s not time to talk about cuts, it’s not time to talk about layoffs, it’s time to talk about revenue strategies,” CPS board member Michilla Blaise said at the meeting. These folks really do not understand. Where do they think the “revenue” comes from? 360 layoffs is window dressing. CPS working on closing the $740M budget gap with 360 layoffs, many of which were crossing guards. It appears CPS does not have any idea how much money $740M actually is and what needs to be done to address it? I guess, at least,… Read more »
Yeah, it’s wild how disconnected some of these statements sound — “revenue strategies” don’t just magically appear. Laying off 360 people barely scratches the surface of a $740 at https://speedau-casino.net/, and crossing guards aren’t the ones breaking the budget.