Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer
April 22, 2026
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While presidents, governor honor late civil rights leader Jackson, Chicago’s mayor says tax the rich – Center Square
At the memorial service for Rev. Jesse Jackson, Mayor Brandon Johnson spoke for several minutes before encouraging musical accompaniment. “Black, brown, white, Asian, young, old, it is time for the ultra-rich to pay their fair share in taxes on the other side of the bridge. Reverend, you crossed your bridge. We know our assignment. We see you on the other side,” Johnson said, as music played and the crowd rose to its feet.
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Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer: Chicago pension buyout plan mostly shifts debt rather than eliminating it, property tax surge doubles inflation over three decades
April 3, 2026
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Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.
Has BJ proposed a memorial or funeral service tax yet?
As Rahm never said, never let a funeral go to waste.
Now if only Al Sharpton joins him.
He has a CPS teachers attitude. Everything should be about me and my comfort. Don’t you wish he’d zoom this shit in so we could turn it off. Much like his students in his teaching days
The dogmatic brainwashing of the black community, particularly it’s leaders is fascinating. If they only knew they were targeted as part of Russia’s cold-war strategy, how things may become better for their communities. First, they need to watch the Yuri Bezmenov videos, then read the writings of Manning Johnson and Paul Kengor, particularly Kengor’s masterpieces: The Devil and Karl Marx and The Communist.