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
ComEd is a pseudo public agency already. Its “competitors” are straw dogs, speculators who “buy electricity” to resell to customers without any power-generation resources themselves. ComEd costs are so high because Illinois, Cook County, and municipal Chicago corruption-related transactional costs are so high. Costs of bribes, sweetheart deals, ghost payrollers, and other political favors are passed-on to ComEd’s customers. No ComEd executive has been convicted of their crimes, nor ordered to pay restitution to ComEd customers. Cheaper electrical costs require ComEd to run its business operation like a public-traded corporation: political donations, yes, but within reason, and ultimately accountable to… Read more »
Do it, Chicago. Nationalize it, force everyone to buy city electricity. The Feds will use it as a vehicle to put alderman and city officials in jail.