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
We have all seen the endless comments from teachers about how nobody understands how difficult their job is. Remote “teaching” is what they have wanted all along, with the extra bonus that they will have even less accountability for performance than they did in the classroom. It is their dream come true, and they will never willingly give it up.
The teachers really like semi retirement I guess. The secret wish of CTU is that the Wuhan Virus continues until teachers at home becomes the norm. Or at least they wish the fear continues. Because the whole basis of their demands are based on an exaggerated societal fear of a virus that isn’t that much worse than the flu. The first virus that had the advantage of the Internet to amplify fear for political ends. And yes masks are a central pillar of that fear mongering. What about all that air that blows in and out around your mask? Regular… Read more »
The first offers should have been.
364 days off with pay every year
World Peace
No more Death
No more Disease
Immortality
But they probably would have rejected those too.
Since the CTU does not want to do their job and report to work, lock them out. Time for Chicago to find the guts to change the status quo with the CTU. They can be replaced.
Would it be legal to just sack the entire school system and start over again? All the kids are at home anyway.