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.
It’s not teachers, they’re educators. They don’t see this as a negative for students as most are unwilling to learn. Parents don’t care, if the kids get breakfast and more everything is fine.
You’ve said it all there! Really, what far too many parents want more than anything else is “free” baby-sitting service for their children. As long as their children are off the streets and have some degree of adult supervision, that form of “education” suits them well enough. I think there is a place for that kind of preference, one that’s not recognized by being forced to pay the high prices of college-educated teachers. There are to be various things and various kinds of employees schools do other than trying to make every student “ready for college” unless there is an… Read more »