Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer: Illinois Budget’s New Taxes Face Serious Constitutional Challenges
June 12, 2026
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Audio and summary linked here.
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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
Where is the article? I want to read it. -Dick at dick@dickhaasmail.com
More garbage reporting. Expressing the problem as 26 million pensioners vs 300 million taxpayers is an attempt to make this a collective problem. Residents in NY are on the hook for NY state pensions; residents of NYC are on the hook for NYC local pensions. Residents of Indiana aren’t on the hook for either one of them, no matter how hard defined benefit pension supporters try to blur the distinctions between “promised to” and “promised by”.
Government always lies to the taxpayers.
Taxpayers were put on earth to be lied to and cheated.
Shut up and pay your taxes.
Don’t worry, the fat man is going to be elected president and shower Illinois with money
https://www.morningstar.com/news/marketwatch/202211091285/heres-why-you-should-be-worried-about-state-and-local-pensions
Where’s the beef? (article)