Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer: Illinois Budget’s New Taxes Face Serious Constitutional Challenges
June 12, 2026
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A mess of uncertainty and litigation is sure to follow.
With $162 billion more from taxpayers, couldn’t you deliver a few bond upgrades, too
How to save money? Defund the police department. Sounds great. Chicago and other big urban cities should turn the PD into reactive departments meaning ni cops on the street. No traffic stops, no patrols, no anti crime units, no detectives. The PD will have a few cops assigned to station duty where you can go to file a police report for insurance purposes. Violent crime? Shot, stabbed, raped, well wait until you recover then walk on over and file a report. Arrest warrants? Handled by the county sheriff. Drug dealers, feds can handle that. Domestic disturbances, social worker squad. The… Read more »
Crime will stop when the police are fully defunded, right?
This is a joke right?
Cops are in a no-win situation. They try to stop crime and the put their lives at risk – either being killed by suspects or if something goes wrong, they go to jail. If they slow things down a bit, the superpredators run wild and kill with reckless abandon. What, you don’t like the term superpredators? I’m just using Biden’s own term!