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.
Put a fork in Chicago. If this comes, Chicago is toast. Selective enrollment schools are the only thing keeping hundreds of upper and middle class families in Chicago. My family was on the edge of moving to Wilmette before my kids got into selective enrollment schools. No way were my kids going to the neighborhood school dumpster.
„Affluent liberals will give all the lip service in the world to progressive ideals. But when the rubber hits the road, they will not hesitate to shield their children from gang-infested and dysfunctional schools by decamping into suburbs or heading for private schools. The ultimate losers in this scenario would be the low-income academic overachievers: students who will be bored to tears in a slow-paced academic environment but do not have the cash to pay for a privatized education.” For anyone who hasn’t been paying attention…. Equality = equal opportunity Equity = equal outcomes Good luck Chicago! I’ve called hospice… Read more »