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
The families, the protesters, the news reporters, all talk about what the police did wrong and how the police should have behaved differently. Not one of them ever asks, ‘Gee, what would have happened if the kid didn’t have the illegal gun? Gee, what would have happened if the kid didn’t have the gun in his hand? Gee, what would have happened if the kid didn’t run, and actually followed the lawfully given police orders?’
Answer, they’d still be alive today.
Well, they’d still be alive unless some other gangbanger killed them between now and then.
Media coverage bemoans police shooting teenagers holding guns involved in shootings, as in the recent Little Village case or in raids as in the recent Minneapolis case. If the standard for police work allows police to shoot only after being fired upon, who will be willing to do serious police work at such risk? Police work is already becoming more dangerous. Media apparently take community leaders seriously when those leaders protest the police shooting of a teenager holding a gun when the police are called to the scene of a shooting that appears to have involved said gun. How is… Read more »
Defund the police means defund the police including making their jobs harder, demoralizing them and discouraging future officers. Crime is wildly popular in high crime neighborhoods. Police are an obstacle to committing crime. Cook County voted overwhelmingly for a non-prosecution prosecutor. Cook COunty doesn’t see high crime as a problem. Everywhere else does, of course, but most Cook County voters do not. Because crimes aren’t crimes to the progressives, crime is simply a way of life. These concepts are so completely foreign to people like us, law and order types, because who wants higher crime? Criminals want higher crime, and… Read more »