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.
They should file bankruptcy and renegotiate all the contracts. The taxpayers just cannot afford the CPS currently.
They just negotiated the contract. It stays and isn’t going anywhere.
Even if and how current $730 mil CPS deficit is met to pay for the GIANT CTU wins, empty class rooms, ARPA-COVID funding made permanent, etc, etc dopey taxpayer are still supposed to buy-in that CPS is somehow vastly underfunded per state EBF….we’re in la-la land folks
I’ll take da over on $730MM!!
Cook County taxpayers get ready for higher taxes baby!!
How about BJ’s idea of a head tax, $500 per student.
Chicago loves regressive taxing, no one with enough money would have their kids in Chicago schools if they could afford not including 1/2 the teachers.