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
Founding fathers didn’t have McDonalds and other fast foods to
get that jelly belly.
What absurd and silly arguments for ignoring one of the fundamental laws of the nation. Is that the best that Fatboy and Kwame have? Clearly neither achieved their current position due to brainpower. Fatboy bought his office and Kwamie simply checked the right ethnic/racial boxes. Talk about failing upward. That’s all that Democrats have.
The air force is not mentioned in the constitution either. Only the army and the navy. I guess the USAF is unconstitutional.
I guess we shouldn’t have microwaves, motorized transportation, or running water either. What maroons. (Of course it’s just “Rules for thee and not for me.”)
These junior high debate level arguments will be shredded by SCOTUS
Founding fathers didn’t own AR-15s or large capacity magazines but at the same time the Government didn’t own them either.
The Founding Fathers didn’t have the internet either, so I assume the First Amendment doesn’t apply to the internet
Citing the Founding Fathers is joke. At the time of the nations founding every farmer, rancher, settler, hunter, woodsman, explorer and many others possessed a modern, military style rifle carried by soldiers, the musket. Following tradition, rifles evolved, ammunition evolved and firearm technology evolved and citizens, the same group as outlined above, were able to upgrade their personal arms. Military firearms, rifles, can be fired in the automatic mode, one trigger pull and non stop firing. Those are already prohibited by the National Firearms Act of the 1930’s. A firearm owner with pretty much minimum qualifications can fire a revolver,… Read more »