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.
Pritzker is running out of money to fund illegals. So he has to steal money from local governments. He could stop all the fraud in this state, but won’t.
Start eliminating if you can’t fund it. Start with township government, start consolidating into one local branch instead of four, township ,state, county and city jurisdictions . I know it will never happen but it’s a starting point, redundancy is like stupidly in this state
Consolidation of schools would be a HUGE cost reduction.
If your district only has 2 or 3 schools and you can hit the other districts with 2 or 3 with a slingshot, they need to be combined.
The state needs to FORCE school consolidation or cut funding until they do!
Many townships should just be eliminated, if 65% of you township is towns/cities it needs to go!
When school districts are consolidated the general end result is that teachers in districts having lower pay scales are then paid the same salaries as the teachers who were employed in the formerly highest pay scale district. Your hope otherwise seldom applies.
Hey, if having more districts doesn’t cost any more, why not make each school its own district? After all, there are no cost savings from fewer districts. Seriously?
In my earlier posting I forgot to mention that in many—maybe even most—such school district consolidations the newly unemployed former superintendents tend to be first choices for other admin jobs in the newer consolidated districts. Want to guess their pay levels in these new jobs? Hint: One or more will now have “Asst. Superintendent” as their new title. How many assistants does the new Superintendent need? Hint #2: How many such people are not retiring and need a new job? Take a more educated guess now as to the resulting tax dollars saved as a result.
Gosh, I would think the unions would be falling all over themselves in support of consolidation. It’s apparently the best path to union members getting higher pay. One district for all of Illinois! Can’t wait to hear unions take up that position.
Guvna? Guvna? Cleanup needed on aisle 1.
So, you can see no cost reduction, no efficiency gains, no staff reduction in consolidating the 852 separate school districts in Illinois? The highest number of School Districts in the nation.
There may well be some savings here and there, but overall the result is nowhere near as sizable as many might presume. It’s a bit like taking your car into the dealer for what you think is a small issue only to be told it’s a big-buck bill you’re having to pay. Life is like that from time to time.