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.
City will get 22% of the TIF surplus or roughly $220M if they declare a $1B surplus. CPS also said they will contribute any excess surplus above the $380M in their budget back to the city to go to the municipal pension catch up payment. Under the proposed surplus CPS will get $520M; so $140M will go back to the city to pay for something they are not legally obligated to pay.
The total hit to the budget would be $360M if Alderman reject it.
Paying back the CTU for the 2 MILLION ILLEGAL dollars he was given during his mayoral campaign .
Johnson sells out “disadvantaged areas” that he says he is protecting for CTU, CPS and illegals. CPS could close empty and underutilized schools and lay off the staff. Then CPS could become financially solvent. But Johnson won’t disobey his master-CTU.