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
And the dumb down will plunk a JB 2028 sign in their front yard while proclaiming he deserves their support because JB held true to his word and didn’t raise property taxes.
They are trying to raise the cost of leaving Illinois. Buy one last tank and flee from this taxation madness.
Nickel-and-diming taxpayers via continued, relatively small tax and fee increases over time is nothing new; I’m sure many states do it. However, for the state with the highest overall taxes in the country to do this is wrong and unfair to the already overburdened taxpayer. A state with such a dubious distinction should instead concentrate on ways to ease the tax burden on its residents. Unfortunately, in Illinois, greed and corruption get in the way of making taxpayer-friendly decisions.
I would love to see an accounting of all state vehicle that grifting politicians use for their useless jobs.
Further, I would like to know how many of these lazy grifters get free gas credit cards where the state pays for their gas.
You just know that there’s a multimillion dollar grift happening right now with state issued credit cards. Guaranteed.