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.
John Kass is absolutely right- the CTU now run Chicago, along with AFSME.
“Public servants” and “Public employees” are neither our servants nor our employees. They have become our masters.
Perhaps the CTU is still supporting Chairman Preckwinkle in its undermining of the mayor, after all there is another election in a couple of years and TP may still have plans to add an office on the sixth floor of City Hall . Or to install one of her stooges there. The kids’ educations matter little when there are elections to powerful offices to be won. Sharkey knows the butter side of the bread better than anyone. Lightfoots come and go, Preckwinkles abide. Except for Kass, the press coverage has seldom questioned the CTU’s assertion of a lack of safety,… Read more »