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
My daughter and new husband just Illinois! a Educator and a engineer will never come back.
Moved to Indy increase in pay and half the cost for housing!
Good luck Illinois! keep sticking your head in the sand!
as if there needs to be another reason to leave Illinois
Doesn’t this bill provide a clear incentive for over-assesment, then refund to politically connected on appeal? It sounds like a way to bypass the cap limitations, assess whatever they want, reward their cronies through “rebates” on “mistaken” assessments. The Chumbalones will pay.
Joe Berrios wrote the book on that (co-authored by Mike Madigon).
Government overcharges company A and then taxes property owners X,Y and Z more $$ to pay back A. Two questions, if X,Y or Z is from a group once discriminated against, do the get a break at the expense of the others? Do you need another reason to leave?
This is how property taxes work. If one person gets their property valuation lowered then others in the community need to pay more. If everyone’s property was adjusted downward by 10% then everyone’s rate would then increase 10%. If one person gets an adjustment then the rest of the taxpayers need to make up the difference. Sounds like this bill is fiscally responsible. Well done.
Lol
This is what the smart people of Illinois want. Fairness.
Absolutely disgusting, more and more people will loose there homes if this bill passes, not one lazy bum in Springfield objected, Pritzker could care less he has money and you think people are leaving now. Illinois will be known as the biggest welfare state in the union.
But this is what you voted for it’s progressive.
I didn’t vote for this.
That simple statement captures the prevailing opinion in America, I think.
hell no I didn’t vote for this crap