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.
Disgusting
Lots of unionistas on here during school hours.
No need to say more, sums it up nicely.
Go vouchers!
Go Rothbard!
Kinda figured this would happen once The View and lunch was over.
They’re still getting over the “shock” of Whoopi contracting COVID and being lumped in with the unwashed masses.
https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/whoopi-goldberg-shares-update-breakthrough-covid-19-case/story?id=82087338
If the CTU wants to have the students be remote, require them to teach from their classrooms or forfeit their pay.. no remote teaching from the Caribbean
No thanks. We will teach from home or wait until the positivity rate goes down. Go pound sand if you don’t like it. All of you corporate boot lickers can go to work in a dangerous environment but we are union people that won’t accept table scraps and unsafe conditions from our overlords. We will be paid in full!!! You’re lucky we aren’t demanding more money.
Union Strong!!!
You seem to have forgotten who actually pays your salary. Hint- it is not your union leaders.
You seem to have forgotten that we do not work for whatever pay that you decide and under whatever unsafe conditions you offer. You will not get our labor until we agree. That’s a foreign concept to the corporate bootlickers but too bad. Time for you to learn.
Union Strong!!!
Thank you for posting these comments. It’s quite clear now what needs to be done, in case there was any doubt before.
It is quite clear beggar of Prozac. CPS will make the schools safer or we will not be returning to live classroom teaching. Until that time, CPS will not have access to our labor.
Corporate stooges will scream “bust the unions” and “vouchers for all” as a coping tool. That, of course, won’t happen but it does make them feel better. Enjoy!!!
Union Strong!!!!
Whatever support unions had in the 1930s is gone, gone, gone. The playing field has been tilted back to the point where disruption is the name of your game and parents and taxpayers wish you the worst, including bankruptcy and loss of jobs, pensions and healthcare. You’ve burnt your bridges and (depending on your age and your expectations) you have lots of bad years on the horizon. What was once a respected and helping profession has become both ineffective and therefore useless. Feed while you can at the trough and store up the leftovers because you can’t eat/drink your venom.
Illinois nurses and doctors paying 3.5% property tax rates on houses declining in value against all other homes in America hear you loud and clear.
Make sure the medical staff knows who you are and what you believe at your next appointment.
The guys behind the constitutional amendment to cement union rights into our state constitutional have to be fuming over this. CTU’s tantrum is going to be used in all the ads telling people to vote no. This is where Griffin needs to put his money.
Spot on. Let the Vermin of CTU pee in the pool.
All of the other Public Sector union members (except for AFSCME) hate these slothful CTU grifters already. Let them hang.
Excellent! About time CPS called their bluff. Just cancel classes outright, sit out the next week or two, then force the teachers to either cut into their spring break or summer vacation to make up those days. Have fun watching The View and gazing out the window at the below-zero wind chills while you change your summer plans.
A week or a month won’t be enough. Serious economic pain and job insecurity (coupled with pension and benefit insecurity) is needed to change the mind-set. Aim for September and don’t cave in to judges. Suspending salaries should leave lots of money to pay lawyers and since it’s the teachers and union who are forcing the district to incur legal fees there will be a good argument that scarce resources are being used to address the most urgent priorities.
Bombast – The trolls don’t like this comment so it must be a good idea!! Do they need to troll WP to know how mad parents are at this decision? They are using kids as pawns – again. And Lightfoot is pretending she has no control. Seems like a backroom deal.
Let the trolls and their constituencies reap what they have sown. Choke on crow casserole. They should be black-listed and never re-hired. Their pension fund should be frozen and distributed at 10 cents on the dollar. There might be a few committed educators who can find jobs with a newly constituted school system (like Detroit’s), but most of them (teachers and administrators) have demonstrated that they have no place in the education business.
Or am being too harsh?
Bust these union vermin now. This is an illegal wildcat strike. Toss these lazy brainless CTU scum onto the street. Hire remote learning teachers from India for the interim, give parents school vouchers, decertify CPS and start over with consolidated schools, new administrators and new teachers. Enough of the inmates running the asylum.
We will come back to work in person when it’s safe to do so. Remote learning or nothing in the meantime.
Union Strong!!!
I agree, very dangerous in the classroom with Covid raging. Much more dangerous than some of the neighborhoods your students travel through on their way to school.
CTU scum. You are an employee of the taxpayers of Chicago. Shut your self absorbed pie hole and get your ass back to work. Or you should be out on the street begging for food on an expressway ramp.Shame on you.
Only corporate stooges and non-union scum just accept the table scraps that you offer. If conditions aren’t met then we will work remote only. I know that frustrates you but it’s time you realize we are not your slaves. Shame on all the non-union rats.
Who do you think will cave first? We are union strong!!!
Strong is the odor of greed and corruption — baptize yourselves in your swamp and hunker down for foreclosure and bankruptcy.
I grew up in Bridgeport, graduated from CPS in the sixties. It was the same then as it is now. The CPS teachers don’t care about the kids. They are “lunchbuckets, “career pensioners” They are marginally educated, most with poor social skills, and no empathy or compassion. Don’t pay them if they don’t show up. This should have happened last year, let them strike and deplete their strike funds. Hire caring parents to provide some temporary congregational setting for the kids. Kids learn from each other more than from these Bozo’s.
“They are marginally educated, most with poor social skills and no empathy or compassion.”
Boy, did you hit the mark with that one! Many of the teachers I worked with in the city high schools were childless themselves and afraid of the students.
Chicago is just a dysfunctional mess. Schools that, in the best of times, have failed to achieve academic “standards” and graduation rates, even though those expectations are lowered time and again. Public schools in Chicago have long been little more than vastly expensive taxpayer funded nanny-state day care, camouflaged (not very well) as “education.” Residents are overtaxed-n-over-fee’d, yet the city is a financial disaster, and the actual quality of government services is abysmal. Crime and lawlessness – endemic. Physical infrastructure – out of date and decaying. Chicago’s citizenry – a melange of unaccommodating “victim-classes” at war with one another, encouraged… Read more »
Due to technical difficulties during the vote. We had to send the email at 1:30am to let you know your kids are not going to school.
It’s equivalent to a Marx Brothers movie! The schools will remain open? Anyone can wander in and participate in embracing confinement.
On average, it is difficult to obtain a good white collar job and career with a group with average ACT scores of 19. And those with these kind of qualifications are not going to land a job at Glenbard West, so there are plenty of incentives for the union to avoid accountability for members. And there are lots of incentives to play politics. To be clear, no matter the qualifications the job in some schools can be difficult, but the CTU consistently acts in self interest of its members; student success is not a primary concern of the union. For… Read more »
Excellent comment. Adding to this, if any good comes from this nightmare, I hope it is the emergence of vouchers. I’ve seen a lot of chatter about that lately. It wouldn’t have happened without COVID, but I could see it now.
CPS parents seem unconcerned about vouchers and but very concerned about the free breakfast and lunch provided to every student regardless of need.
You need to satisfy the basic survival needs before anything else. The parents trust CTU and continue to support us. They will not be fooled by the corporate boot lickers.
I hope everyone has fun providing their useless ideas that will never be implemented. Most of you don’t have kids that even attend CPS but think your opinion matters. When we want your opinion we will let you know.
Union Strong!!!!
“basic survival needs before anything else” Wait! What? School isn’t for babysitting, remember?
No vouchers. If you want to pay for private school pay for it yourself. We will not allow money to be stolen from these children for your fantasy to dismantle public education. The voters support us.
Union Strong!!!
Jesse – rather than bromides, what do you think of my comment about the academic background of teachers in Chiago? ACT scores of 19 are not really sufficient to do rigorous college work, and are woefully low with regard to completing certain majors. In a way, you should be beating the drum for much higher average scores because presumably it would take increased compensation to attract higher scoring people. In rebuttal, and in the spirit of being balanced, I suppose you could assert that given the unpreparedness and rather low quality of a large number of students in Chicago, analytic… Read more »
Pound sand, buddy. It will happen or it won’t. I feel a change coming due to this pandemic and I think it centers around K-12 and higher education. We will see.
I’ve read your responses and if you represent the caliber of CPS teachers, I understand why the school district is in such dire shape.
It’s about our kids, not the teachers.
It is likely Jesse S is a troll, but nevertheless could in that role present rational arguments, unless the troll believes the CTU is not capable. The trolling may be well played.