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
Does this qualify as news to anyone?
All the newsworthy topics are ignored, but this obvious fact gets a headline?
Speaks volumes, doesn’t it?
Ah well, I won’t subsidize the wokesters infesting The Trib, so I can’t read the article. Will Johnson asserts that trains and buses are full, but the ridership stats do not support this claim. According to the CTA’s own data CTA rail ridership is 34% of what it was in 2019 and 31% of the high water mark of 2015. Will also says that more would ride if their ride were more secure. He’s close on that point. It’s not the trains that are less secure, it’s the city itself. Years of intentional mismanagement of the criminal justice system in… Read more »