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
Not enough relatives of democrat politicians have applied. You have a business and need a grant? Come up with some under the table cash and you’ll get it.
God, I hate fake news so much because they intentionally leave out the real reasons because it doesn’t fit the political narrative. The grant money is subject to Illinois’ Prevailing Wage Laws. Even if the grant money covers only a small part of the project, and insurance covers the rest, the entire project must pay workers Illinois’ Prevailing Wages. And if the workers are not unionized, they must be paid an additional hourly rate as compensation for the lack of union benefits. The general contractor has to certify that the sub-contractors are paying prevailing wages too, and that includes subcontactor… Read more »
Spot on, Debtsor.
https://www2.illinois.gov/idol/FAQs/Pages/prevailing-wage-faq.aspx
What makes a project subject to the Act?
All fixed works constructed by any public body or paid in whole or in part with public funds, including all projects funded or financed in whole or in part with bonds, grants, loans or other funds made available by or through the State or any of its political subdivisions, or undertaken by an institution supported in whole or in part by public funds. Landscape or modifications to real estate are included within the definition of fixed work. A project does not have to be for public use to be covered.
Are contractors/subcontractors who perform work on prevailing wage projects required to keep and submit specific records for the project? Contractors/subcontractors are required to make and keep for not less than three years from date of last payment on a project; records of all laborers, mechanics and other workers employed by them on the project, which records must include each worker’s name, address, telephone number when available, social security number, classification or classifications of such workers the workers gross and net wages the number of hours worked each day by the workers the worker’s starting and ending times of work each… Read more »