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.
A lot of these “old” buildings are beautifully designed with lots of big old windows and high ceilings. They’ve managed to teach generations of students going back 100 years or more for a lot of them. They are always blaming the buildings, the pipes, the boilers, lights, av equipment etc and crying for money and never blame the bloated cps beurocracy or ctu pay rate. Someone or group has a vested interest in keeping the perpetual “buildings and teachers are underfunded” narrative going and they have successfully convinced nearly all the minority groups in cps to believe it.
““CPS has a history of not caring about Black children and this is before COVID. So I think it is very unfair for this institution to think that we are going to trust them with our Black life.””
Yes, the CPS boogieman, when CPS does such a terrible job of teaching students, they produced graduates with this level of stupidity.
Yet, these same parents, who truly believe that CPS doesn’t care about their Black life, continue to send their kids to the same crappy schools.
Can’t fix stupid!
Get out of Chicago now!
Crumbling buildings and the pandemic are separate issues. Like Trump said, you cannot use covid as an excuse to ask for pension bailouts or new buildings. When states and cities get into trouble with their budgets, the first thing they cut is education because it’s a big target and it’s something that you can cut. Illinois is $250 billion in debt, just with pensions. You can cut school funding but you can’t cut pensions.