Totaling the unsustainable tax increases and windfall revenue during Pritzker Administration – Wirepoints
May 25, 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.
That money needs to be applied to where it’s really needed: increasing already-bloated salaries, health care benefits, and pensions.
CPS has 18% of the total state enrollment but gets 40% of CARES funding? What gives?
State legislative districts are gerrymandered to marginalize the suburban vote. All have a Chicago element, and then a slice of suburban voters. But all the suburbanites increasingly voting D must like it this way.
Why exactly do schools need relief funding? I mean, I just paid my tax bill a few months ago, and I have another one due in July? Why does my local district need more money?
INSATIABLE! Plain and simple!
Some not so small portion of your property tax bill is sent by the school district business manager to the teachers union headquarters in Springfield. That is for union dues so the union can do two things – pay off the politicians so they continue to get salary increases well above the private sector and the immoral pension benefits, and drive the marketing machine that spins the messages that it is for the kids and that they are short of money. Because of this immoral siphoning of the property tax money, and the lavish construction budgets all paying the prevailing… Read more »