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.
It was a sure thing that the CTU would end up controlling the CPS school board, just as local unions control the suburban school boards too. My school board is half former teachers and administrators, and they are all chummy chummy with current administrators and teachers, providing zero oversight whatsoever, and give the unions whatever they want. Literally whatever they want. Because the unions are often the only campaign donors and paid for all of their flyers and campaign expenses.
Stunning, by contrast, today’s front page ST/WBEZ–S. Karp article on lawyers fighting to disqualify school board candidates doesn’t even mention all the CTU hired lawyers who have already successfully disqualified non-CTU backed candidates. (https://www.wbez.org/education/2024/09/06/chicago-school-board-elections-see-big-school-choice-cash-including-from-billionaires)
In a better world where most people pay attention and vote, CTU endorsements and candidates would be treated as who not to vote for.