Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer
April 22, 2026
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April 14, 2026
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If this bill passes, say goodbye to local control over all Illinois parks and expect to see open drug and alcohol use, needles, no sanitation and fire hazards, but no ordinary park users.
Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer: Chicago Fiscal Crisis Worse Than Pre-Bankruptcy Detroit, HIV Surge and Public Health Threat From Open Borders Goes Unreported
April 10, 2026
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Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer: Chicago pension buyout plan mostly shifts debt rather than eliminating it, property tax surge doubles inflation over three decades
April 3, 2026
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Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.
Million dollar homes include the haunt of those northern area liberals…tax them because they voted for it.
All the tents in the picture look brand new. Almost like a staged event.
the cause of homelessness is complex, Lightfoot said, Not really, most are either mentally ill or suffer from addiction. They want to force people to get an untested jab but won’t force them to accept treatment for their mental illness or substance abuse. Hard to figure out if these libs are dumb or crooked.
How many of these are homeless because they could not afford the excessive property taxes on the homes they used to live in? A little run of bad luck/bad health/etc and they lost their homes because the taxes are not based on the ability to pay them but just the value only. When will the property task force actually do something? Maybe a combination of taxing home value a little less and income and increase the senior deduction so more can stay in their homes.
I agree that property taxes have no bearing on ones ability to pay. Maybe some day voters of Illinois will demand that other taxes that better reflect ones ability to pay (income taxes) should be raised so that property taxes can be reduced. Once the voters start understanding that taxes will need to be raised elsewhere, we can finally begin to fix the high property taxes. It will only happen if the voters desire it. Until then, high property taxes for all.
In states where there are low property taxes others taxes were raised or started like maybe reinstating the personal property tax which was abolished in 1979. Local county income tax capped at 1.5% or less and only to be raised by referendum but only in exchange for lower property taxes NOT in addition to which most likely will happen in Illinois. Too many people lost their homes like here in Rockford after 2008 because taxes were higher than the mortgage (and many still are and the taxes cannot be renegotiated unlike the mortgage which can be. Lots of numbers need… Read more »
So million dollar home owners get the privilege of paying exorbitant extra taxes so more riff raff can come to town and squat at the end of their million dollar home streets? Only a lib could think that by subsidizing homelessness you will get less of it. Here’s a tip – The people in these tents are not going to participate in any organized housing program. There are plenty of programs out there already and the ones who want in are in.