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.
If people aren’t preparing for a strike/no schools for their children they are fools, no way even a fraction of these demands can be funded.
Chicago should just file for bankruptcy and void all these public contracts.
CTU contract should be no different than the rest of the state, which are still very generous.
Johnson’s pondering nothing. Gates will jerk his puppet strings, remind him how he got where he is and tell him how much the CTU will receive.
A lot of Chicagoan’s don’t pay taxes and they vote too.
Are CTU “negotiations” the official start of the post-free-Covid-bucks budgeting (I mean spending)? Fasten your seat belts, Chicago residents!
When even Greg Hinz starts worrying about a tax revolt, you know things are bad.
Greg is probably a straight up 1099 independent contractor now, and hates logging into EFTPS to pay his quarterly taxes, which by the way, were due less than two weeks ago.