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
The people of Champaign County say NO to this new tax. NO!
Quite a blurb on why higher taxes are needed by Democrat elected Sherriff Heuerman. He names new hiring programs in the mental health area and unspecified spending in the existing bureaucracy. This is followed by a “fear factor” of cutting Deputy Sherriff positions. Quite possibly these positions were caused by those seemingly “quiet grants” that provide temporary funding that, when expired, allow local politicians to proclaim that more taxes are needed to prevent cuts of positions that were not needed to begin with save the “use or lose” previous grant. Democrats always have answers to created crisis’s meaning more taxes… Read more »