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.
Have to keep the schools open for the union to collect UNION DUES. CTU only cares about power and money.
Public schools serve the public and are built for the community. When that community isn’t using the the publicly funded building and school, the Public School needs to reallocate resources to address operational needs. That might mean closing schools. It is reality. It seems that just because public education is funded by a never ending and bottomless pit of taxation, educators can allow unused structures and resources to to be spent inefficiently. This waste has to end. It is ridiculous and obviously unsustainable.
Another 50 isn’t enough!
There are roughly 600 Chicago public schools in operation. If 1/3 of class rooms are empty, does that mean Chicago is looking at closing about 200 schools so all class room would be filled after 2027? A lot of principles will be scrambling for jobs.
Enrollment dropped from 115,000 to 18,000. And they say with a straight face that a school shouldn’t be closed because Tina Turner was an alum.
News flash- Tina Turner moved to Switzerland decades ago, where she finally became a citizen and passed away a few years ago. Time to face the real world as it exists now.