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
Unfortunately also sounds like the Biden administration using Harris for there gain.
It’s so obvious someone from O’Fallon figured it out. The Democratic machine has rendered you irrelevant and a capon.
Few care because there’s nothing anyone can do about it. Polarization and geographic self-sorting has give legislators easy maps to gerrymander. It’s a problem all over the country. It’s much harder to gerrymander when a district is evenly mixed R & D and are neighbors on the same block. These days the most extreme D neighborhoods are D+95 or more and it’s easy to mix and match D and R areas like puzzles. The good news though is that every indication this far out is for a red tsunami unlike anything we’ve ever seen, even bigger than the tea party… Read more »
Of course it is cherry picking. Illinois high schools do not have the courage or ability to teach the truth. Through partisan map making controlled by one party, the politicians choose their constituents. The high schools teach that we elect the politicians. High schools do not teach the truth. And of course a civics class twould never mention that Pritzker lied when he promised that he would not let this occur on his watch. He signed off on a map he campaigned saying he would not sign off on.