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.
Unfortunately, the only way such massive (but, not uncommon) waste can be stopped in Chicago is by following Detroit.
If they closed all the Chicago schools with students near zero percent efficient in reading a writing, more than half the schools would close. At least most aren’t spending nearly 100K per student to turn out future gang members.
Better question is how many teachers, janitors, clerical staff, principals, assistant principals, counselors are riding the gravy train with this “overwhelming” amount of students? What’s the true amount spent on this kindergarten class?
CTU controls the Chicago public school system. It’s who purpose is to create and keep union jobs in under used schools .
Can’t go around now and start disemploying union members now, can we?
Illinois public sector unions, especially da Teacher’s unions, are da Dems masters in Taxistan.
Mayor BJ was elected to do their bidding.
He will NEVER do anything that is not in their best interests.
We could and then face a firestorm of being “ racist “ and “ inequitable “. It’s become a complex of its own, on a par with the military complex, etc. and other entities that actually have something to show for the amount of taxpayer dollars that they receive.