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 observe the way these teachers act I am not certain I would want them teaching my children. However one thing I have learned by watching them is now I understand the dismal academic results of the Chicago District students.
Why would we expect anything more?
There’s a reason the only student population growing in CPS is illegal immigrants and even that doesn’t stem the losses from every other demographic. Everyone else is leaving.
The teachers think they are fighting against social injustice, like in the movie “Fistful of Dynamite” (1971). In that movie James Coburn is a terrorist who is getting tired of blowing up buildings and Rod Steiger is a poor man who joins the social justice movement after his family is killed. The opening scene where Rod is picked up by a luxury stagecoach shows the gap between the rich and the poor. I guess that CTU thinks they are fighting social injustice but the biggest burden on poor people is the state’s $250 billion unfunded pension liability as well as… Read more »