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.
Ralph Martire has quite a racket going leading his innocuously (and misleadingly) named Center For Tax and Budget Accountabilty, which is primarily funded by public unions and acts as a public union advocate despite its name. He’s essentially a public union lobbyist. His time on school boards in River Forest and then Oak Park was advocacy for increased budgets rather fiscal discipline.
And funded by the state as well. Earlier reports here show the grants from the state.
Last night, it’s hard for me to listen to WTTW’s “Chicago Tonight” because it’s so blatantly ‘new machine’ left, but I try anyway. CTU’s crazy demand they continually legitimize. In coverage of CPS/CTU contract negotiations all the host/journalist commentators are simply all in agreement and will make a blanket statement—“CPS is traditionally underfunded” which they can conveniently get away with because of the Martire/CTBA dem machine bought and paid for and now law EBF. And therefore, any alternative arguments about astronomical education overspending ($30g a student, etc) compared to other states, municipalities, etc that you will only read on WP… Read more »
Did CTU help pay (with taxpayer $) for the Martire/CTBA –EBF would be an interesting question to ask?