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.
From the CTU web site they are planning a Wednesday-11/8 “CTU – Springfield Lobby Day Veto Session” to bus members to Springfield & back to kill Invest In Kids during a school day on the taxpayers dime.
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Here’s from Second City Teacher blog reporting on CTU latest House Of Delegates meeting: VP Jackson Potter said in his report that Illinois is on the verge to be the first state in the nation to beat back vouchers. He noted that vouchers were first set up in South Caroline in 1956 to fund private schools with taxpayer money so white people did not have to attend schools with black students. The Invest in Kids Illinois voucher scheme is set to sunset at the end of the year and Potter believes they have the votes to make sure it disappears.… Read more »
Beat back vouchers citing some obscure, and probably wrong, fact about vouchers from 1956? Come on’ man, that’s malarkey! Our law is specifically created for low income students in low performing and overcrowded schools! The socialist/communist really truly lives in a world of make-believe.