Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer: Illinois Budget’s New Taxes Face Serious Constitutional Challenges
June 12, 2026
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Audio and summary linked here.
-- Connecting the dots between our economy, government and business --
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
More freebies to criminals who violated marijuana laws in the name of the new equity nonsense. More pot stores to go along with the wig shops and tattoo parlors in water Tower Place.
Illinois prosperity.
A strip mall with video gaming, marijuana, vape shop, alcohol and lottery tickets.
Where is the bill to legalize prostitution so we can add that to the mall.
You can abortion clinics to that long list too.
But you can remove payday loan stores because they’re *bad* and *racist*.
https://news.wttw.com/2021/03/09/legislation-could-end-illinois-payday-loan-industry
And now with COVID restrictions, you can remove churches from that list of prosperity too.
This is Ford is everywhere and every time it is an awful policy