Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon guest on AM560 with Chris Krok discussing CTU lawsuit agains Illinois Policy and more
August 19, 2026
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Summary and audio linked here.
-- Connecting the dots between our economy, government and business --
Much of the routine trade and investment between China and America is entirely appropriate and in America’s interest. But inserting the Chinese Communist Party into America’s pay-to-play system and its economic development strategy isn’t just crossing a line. It’s a leap into an abyss of stupidity.
Illinois paid the price for embracing Fauci’s “science.” Here’s the retrospective.
So Alaska lost the most population to other states in percentage terms, but the narrative is that the underlying cause of outmigration is high taxes? Sorry, I don’t get it, because Alaska is not a high tax state – it has no state income or sales tax, reasonable property taxes, and every Alaskan actually receives a check from the state each year because it gets so much in royalties from oil companies.
Google is your friend:
https://www.alaskapublic.org/2019/01/22/alaskas-population-is-down-for-the-second-year-in-a-row-why/
At least for last year, it was a variety of reasons, including cost of living, work opportunities elsewhere, politics, fewer younger people are moving into the state, the population is getting older. Alaska has also been in a recession.
And let’s be honest, Alaska is a difficult place to live for anyone. I know I wouldn’t want to live there.
If the paragraph about New Jersey needing to lower the threshold for the top rate from $5 million down to $1 million since they aren’t getting the revenue they need to pay pensions doesn’t show IL residents what’s in store with the graduated tax, I don’t know what will. There’s a reason IL won’t put the brackets, rates, and exemptions into the amendment.