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.
There’s a teacher shortage because the new graduates entering the profession are the crazy blue haired freaks and they scare away the normal ones. On a more positive note, my son’s elementary school open house was several weeks ago. I was pleasantly surprised. Not a globohomo or BLM flag to be found anywhere in the school. My son’s teacher is surprisingly a younger teacher among a school of older teachers (my district really overpays teachers) and there was an american flag in the classroom on one wall, a flag for an IL state college on the other wall, and I… Read more »
Translated, we can’t give you a ridiculously egregious pension anymore, so we’ll give you big cash upfront and hope you don’t screw us over.
These funds can be used for anything but educating the children