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.
I don’t want my green anywhere near the CPS. Considering their product, they should give me a refund.
Another outlandish proposal to spend TAXPAYERS MONEY ON DEMOCRATS NARRATIVE OF GREEN ENERGY!! First close all the schools that have UNDER ENROLLMENT. That will save MILLIONS OF DOLLARS and get rid of unnecessary teachers and school personnel saving even more money for the TAXPAYERS!!
Maybe CPS should focus on actually educating students.
“The goal is to look at where we can optimize for efficiency,” Thotakura said. “To identify opportunities and definitely address our budget gap, not further add to it.” Optimize for efficiency. What the hell is she talking about? She is starting a new program to gain efficiency? Spending more money they don’t have? Lets start with low hanging fruit shall we?, how about closing and selling school properties that have 50 students in a building that is built for 1500 and that have more staff in them than students. How about you right size the staffing?. How about you start… Read more »
Just make sure the empty schools that one could shoot a cannon down the halls of and not worry about hitting anyone are on the list. Trust me, they will.
Didn’t CPS just say they are broke and need a BILLION dollars, unless they are growing cannabis on the roof to sell this is another loser.
On the radio this morning, they said this is funded by state and federal funds. I was struck by how much circular funding goes on–with all of it coming from the same taxpayers. In their minds, it’s free money. In ours, it’s a questionable expenditure for a broken school system.