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.
Lori would love to unload CPS. Let the CTU run CPS. There’s no downside. It couldn’t possibly get any worse. Nobody is in line for the Sup job. Let Sharkey have it. No one will remember, or care.
Ctu will elect themselfs w taxpayer $. Watch student count plummets but ctu will insist on zero school closures, zero layoffs
If that happens it’s because the voters of Chicago want that to happen.
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Mayor Lightfoot agrees with me.
CPS Board is anti-democratic.
So an ineffective mayor agrees with you and you’re happy? Take a win where you can I guess.
Candidate Lightfoot disagrees with you along with the super majority of the state legislature.