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
Unions and their members are awful, terrible people. Instead of saying “We remain a partner with the administration to cut costs, maintain fiscal solvency and keep the cost of education reasonable for students, and we believe that 2% costs can easily be achieved…”, they say, “….escalatory actions like this suggest that the university administrators want to choose a more antagonistic path…” a measly 2% cut, a nothing burger, is “antagonistic”.
Where I work we manage our expenses pretty well and I think we could cut 2% if we needed to. I’m guessing ISU could cut 5% if needed. In their defense those people don’t know anything about running a for profit business. Telling them to cut their budget by 2% probably scared the crap out of them because they don’t have a clue how to do it.