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
I have a great idea. Let’s cut spending! Get rid of the flowers in the parkways, the stupid street sweeping, all social justice initiatives, close all the useless Office of This and That located all around the city, limit overtime (and threaten to fire anyone who ‘slows down’ because they can’t do overtime), and so on, and so on. The City’s budget last year for 2018 was $10.1 Billion. A 10% haircut should be easy. Heck, I bet I can cut $10,000,000 a day for the next 100 days and hit a billion and hardly anyone would notice.