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
It’s a long article, so maybe I missed the part reporting how much CTU and its affiliates spent supporting their candidates.
I applaud the impulse, but school choice is a dead letter in Brandon’s and Stacy’s Chicago, where public schools just provide jobs for the Machine’s most zealous campaigners and donors — CTU members. A far better investment would be endowing scholarships for promising low-income students to attend private K-12 schools, thus preparing them for college and work.
Here’s an article from the Trib about CPS pension payments. In the article it said last year pension payments were made from TIF surplus and federal relief funding. I thought TIF money was to be used to increase property values and increase taxable value in blighted areas. So now TIF money is diverted from its original intent. How many times has this been done before since it is a political slush fund awash in cash? https://www.yahoo.com/news/cps-challenges-city-narrative-tensions-224300169.html Something similar happened here in Belvidere a number of years ago where a temporary sales tax increase to be used for infrastructure improvements was… Read more »
God Bless the ‘Choice’ folks – I hope they are a great success! Bringing the CTU to heel and the teachers union in general would be an enormous benefit for the families of Chicago and IL.