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’m not sure why all these loonies are collecting in Evanston. The Mayor is nuts. The City Council is frittering away almost $20 million on reparations payments so a bunch of oppressed folks can rehab their bathrooms and sod their yards (both of which must have a solid impact on alleviating past oppression). Heck, this town was so conservative you couldn’t even buy a beer there until the late 1970s. What’s next– banning all those nasty polluting cars and trucks? What’s going on up there?
Another Climate Cleric demands public funding of his religion. The Religion of Cliimate is just another excuse to reach into taxpayer wallets and confiscate more taxpayer money. Never mind that much of the price spikes we see here in Illinois are directly tied to fuel taxes at all levels. Never mind that fuel is something that every taxpayer, from the rightest of the right to the looniest of the left needs every day. Yes, even pathetic Evanston lefty Robyn Gabel needs fuel to deliver her soy lattes and Pinot. Corporations of all stripes never pay income taxes, fuel taxes, amusement… Read more »
Leave it to the climate nutjobs to create another reason for industrial employers to leave Illinois.