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.
Lots of talk and details about how the tax payers will pay the district more and how the teachers will be paid more and more…just because…but not a lot of details about how the district and teachers performance will be measured to be paid the extra percentages that they outline. Lots of gimme, gimme…but no details or performance requirements. I guess the answer is if they show up…they get paid. Its a 19 step system. No really…a 19 step system. Lets see how complex we can make this, so the tax payer can never understand how or why they are… Read more »