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.
When I was a kid there were zero social workers in public schools. When my kids were in school there was one for an entire (fairly large) district. Now, the grade school my kids attended has TWO FULL TIME Social workers and a part-time psychologist. Classes are routinely disrupted by outbursts by students, a notable percentage of whom are emotionally disturbed, autistic and/or on prescribed drugs for not just ADHD but also even for schizophrenia. If you don’t think this is a harbinger of cataclysm, you’d probably have gone rock climbing on the north face of Mount St. Helens prior… Read more »