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.
If you put this in terms of a business: -Less customers (students) -same store traffic declining (declining enrollment schools) -declining product quality (basic subject matter competency abysmal at every level) -less investors (declining tax paying population) -and a combative, corrupt, litigious workforce (that’s you CTU) How on earth do you have the cajones to ask for more money. Sane tax payers should be demanding a 20% budget reduction, 20% trim of the worthless middle management layer that hasn’t been near a student in decades, close schools that have less than 40% utilization and immediate recertification of every educator in CPS.… Read more »
How is the budget $9.3B one year and $4B the next year? Am I missing something?
That’s $4B in local revenue. There’s another $4.5B coming from the fed and state combined.
Thanks–so is true total budget = $4B local + $4.5B fed & state + $pension payments +$pension payments by state (+$23B in pension debt)? to educate 330,000 kids