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.
You are correct, the goal is to give states more responsibility for the education of their students. Unfortunately Illinois doesn’t take on this responsibility, as you are well aware. Invest in Kids had parents clamoring their legislators to keep it, but the union said No. Who did they listen to? It surely wasn’t responsible to kill the program, only profitable to them. Teachers have poured over $30 million in the last 4 years into the pockets of legislators, 94% of them Democrat. When the Democrat party has carefully constructed a legislative map to benefit them, and you have a billionaire… Read more »
Senator Chesney is correct, it’s the right thing to do. I just wish it was mandatory for states like Illinois that restrict school choice by listening to unions and not the taxpaying parents who want it.
I thought the goal was to dismantle the Department of Education and push these responsibilities on the states and at the local level. Now you want the federal government to mandate how school is done from the top down? Are you good with that if the next administration wants to ban states from using public tax dollars going for school choice?
Also, the taxpaying parents that want school choice need to elect politicians that promise to offer school choice. Their voting doesn’t match what they want.
I think you are skewing the argument here. The last figures I heard was that for every tax payer dollar sent to the Department of Education only 83 cents made its way back to local school districts. The bureacracy of the DOE is skimming 17% of those tax dollars. So the tax dollars are still flowing into a downsized DOE and more money is being distributed to the LEAs, presumably in block grants to the states to administer. The fact that there is a state opt in is incredibly obtuse. It is a Federal issue as it applies to Federal… Read more »