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
It’s called Blue Handle Blues, keep voting blue and you eventually swirl down the toilet.
What happened to Illinois is that many years back, a small minority of voters elected politicians who turned Illinois into a forever one-party state. The ruling party then spent all of its political capital over the next 40 years (beginning w/Madigan) rigging Democracy to make sure Republicans could never win again – extreme gerrymandering, redrawing districts, sanctuary status, attracting Democrat voters with policies, lax campaign finance rules for unions, ballot harvesting, failing to prosecute corruption, etc. It mostly worked. Republicans haven’t held the legislature since the 90’s and we’ve only held a handful of statewide offices. Party bosses control the… Read more »
Hard as it likely is for you to comprehend I’m giving you your first up vote. Lots of truth there.
“many years back, a small minority of voters elected politicians who turned Illinois into a forever one-party state” For more than 100 years (1870 to 1980) Illinois had a unique cumulative voting system for electing members of the Illinois House. Every district had 3 House reps and every voter got 3 votes for that office. The voter could cast 1 vote for each of 3 candidates, 1 1/2 votes for each of 2 candidates, or 3 votes for 1 candidate. The effect was to ensure that in most cases, every district had 2 reps from its majority party and 1… Read more »