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
Compassion aside, aren’t these expenses the responsibility of landlords or other property owners? That’s to say, shouldn’t the replacement program at least be needs-tested rather than bailing solvent owners out of their neglected maintenance? Why is everything the responsibility of taxpayers to fix? What about a law making it impossible to sell a property whose water is tainted with lead or other poisonous or unhealthy stuff? The seller and the buyer ought to be able to negotiate a suitable price that will enable the problem to be fixed without bringing the taxpayers into it. I can see sanctioning landlords who… Read more »