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
Jag Boy has grubby fat hand out for everything he wants to get his hands on –for get the people of the state that voted for him.
I own a smaller boat trailer, its Illinois, good for 6 or 7 months of the year then we have this thing called winter. I use mostly once a week, 3x a month at best. $18 to $118 is just plain theft. 150,000 non trailer renewals at $18.00 is $2.7 million dollars. Non recoverable $2.7 million that could have been used for road projects. I personally know several people who own more than one small trailer who have bought one plate and just transfer it to another trailer when using it or lend it to someone who needs it. The… Read more »
“but sticks it up the wazoo of the people he supposedly cares about the most, the middle class.” This isn’t about the middle class. It’s about being White. Everything our IL state government does is through the lens of equity and race. He’s raising the fee because it’s nearly exclusively White people outside of Cook County that own trailers. He’s punishing white people and making them pay more for trailer renewals. Because equity. They of course can’t come right out and say “let’s find an exclusively white person tax” but everyone knows there will be a disparate impact of this… Read more »