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
The news here is that Blackjack Pritzker admits that Illinois has a reputation as a bad place to do business.
The obvious questions are:
1. How did it get this way? (cough***Dems***cough)
2. What is Blackjack doing about it? (cough***nothing***cough)
BJ needs to learn more from Pritzker about how to subtly increase the residents’ already overly high tax and fee burden, including the death by a thousand cuts approach.
The black hole never stops feeding, it will continue until total change comes to Chicago/Springfield politics. The list will grow of cities destroyed by pure greed, East St. Louis, Harvey soon adding Dolton, Dixmoor, Chicago and on and on. The political lies told to union members rank as the worst of all times. The pensions could never be paid as promised and the liars that told the lies get off free of any criminal charges. Meetings and negotiations must be started or the ultimate end will arrive, not enough jobs, companies, or taxes to sustain the illusion of stability. The… Read more »
Wait you can’t tax those lemmings. Only I can tax those lemmings. Hey calm down fat boy, both you and pinhead will get fatter from the carcasses of your constituents.
I don’t believe it. Jellly Belly found a tax he didn’t like.
Johnson should listen to Pritzker, who knows a thing or two about job killing, working family harming tariffs. Let the state handle this.