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.
Cook County taxes are a small tiny percentage of my income tax bill. Let’s start talking about the hundreds of retired elementary school teachers with six figure pensions!
Gee, just think: you could have been one of them! It’s beneath you, though, I’m sure. After all, EVERYBODY knows they are dumb and worthless bloodsuckers, too. You’re not at all like that.
I think the relevant question is, just as with police and fire, how much of the property tax levies in education go to actual instruction? How much is paid to pension obligations? My guess is that the numbers are bleak. My lifelong friend is a retired 30 year 3rd grade teacher in the NW suburbs. A great teacher, and even those inclined in my suburb of my youth where she lives to make snarky comments about retiring at 55 with a 100k pension concede she was a great teacher in an absolutely crucial grade. In this vein really the problem… Read more »
It is a great pay for babysitters.
Mayor Johnson has a 150-officer personal protection unit for his family. No wonder he’s not concerned by Chicago’s murder rate, by Sheridan Gorman’s cold-blooded murder.
I’m pretty sure a good portion is going toward protecting mayor 6.6%.
Nothing will change until the people demand it or
insolvency and the wolves are at the door step.
The shit will hit the fan in Chicago first that
will cause the idiots in Springfield to take notice
both will look east to Washington for the massive
bailout but all that will come is “ drop dead”.
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