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.
Are the teachers downstate as radical as the teachers in the CTU? Are they going to like having their union dues support her progressive views on issues unrelated to educating children? Is she going to drag down their students test scores like CPS students?
The answer to all your questions is Yes.
They looked at Chicago and CTU and said gimme some of that.
This is who they are.
Ha ha ha! She doesn’t provoke us. But she does breathe the air that other people would put to better use,
Hey Gates, where are the pevious year’s audits for the CTU?
I’m sure they elected her based on the extraordinary success the CTU has had in producing citizens who can read, write, and do math.
The rest of IL is screwed, but they just don’t know it yet. All Gates cares about is politics and power. She doesn’t care about students or education. Look at Chicago student test scores. Someone should audit CTU’ s books.
Stacy won because of the Illinois teachers’ general regard for the “ubi est mea?” principle. They see themselves sharing in the CTU’s boons: 2% pension payments, no accountability for results, extraordinary salaries and benefits and 1000 excuses for the benign neglect of the children under their care.
Their takeover is almost complete. And, they have the nerve to cry “no kings”.
No Kings… just commissars.
The facts that the teachers union is the largest in the state and their willingness to be led around by their nose rings by a tax cheating, racist water bill scofflaw that sends her kids to private school is a slam dunk case to decertify it and ignore its unicorn fart demands. The footage of the one mimicking Kirk’s assassination at a recent ICE protest ( overweight and Hispanic as the footage shows and looking suspiciously like the since disavowed by WGN “reporter “ that got deservedly bounced around by ICE ) gives us a glimpse into some of the… Read more »
POS still owes MONEY FOR HER WATER BILL. So much for” pay your fair share .” Also . Hasn’t released a finical a finical statement in FOUR YEARS .
You would be shocked at the delinquency rates for the monthly water/sewer/trash bills on the south and west sides.
She sure is. But how is she achieving it. Open up the CTU books and see what’s going on . Show me the money trail