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.
This reminds me of “One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest” People in the school districts are medicated with Prozac-Abilify-Risperal-Zyprexa-Ritalin-Vraylar-Lexapro-Zoloft-Paxil-Luvox/etc and those are just the administrators. The kids are in far worse shape.
This sounds good on the surface…EXCEPT: The morons in the legislature have already endlessly micromanaged school discipline to the point where school employees see it as too risky (for them) to discipline students who may be physically dangerous to other students or staff. In other news, confirmation of what I’ve always noted, that Special Ed teachers are often former SpEd students: “State Rep. Jonathan Carroll, D-Northbrook, said he expects to file legislation that would ban the use of isolated timeout in schools altogether. A former special education teacher, Carroll wrote an impassioned blog post about his own experience as a… Read more »