Mayor Brandon Johnson was questioned on his long term plans for a guaranteed income program that relies on expiring federal funds. 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
Um, hasn’t anyone told him Covid is over.
Yep, Zippy the Pinhead and the City council need to check their spending at the door. The Citizen tax dollars they are about to waste isn’t for their pet projects or to balance their stupid spending on immigrants. That’s not what it was intended to be used for and hey – it wasn’t needed. How about give it back!! These people think its their money to do with what they want. The stupidity needs to end.
It will never end if you keep voting democrat(progressive)
I wouldn’t call these people progressive. I think “progressive” (from “progress”) means moving forward with improvements. Many of the ideas and actions of these “progressive” leaders are making situations worse.
Their ideas are actually regressive, like going back to the bronze age, but not the values of the ancient Greeks, but rather, the sodomites and caananites. What’s old is now new, but the low IQ midwits are too stupid to realize that people before us learned these lessons for us.
Yep. Illinois residents continue to suffer from leaders making bad decisions, because the leaders haven’t studied the history of what works and what doesn’t. They know better, so they continue to waste millions or billions of taxpayer dollars trying to implement ideas that were already found to be foolhardy.
Someone should tell Zippy that the white goatee is not a good look on him.
Teletubby haircut too
Giving people money who don’t produce anything is inflationary. Do ANY politicians know that.
They dont care Robert, this is all about buying votes and crying waycismmmmm
Of course they do why do you think they want to stay in office?? They do nothing but gaslight!
Poor reporting. Neither this article, nor WTTW article clarify if alderman get to vote on what remaining COVID $bucks$ are spent on or does Johnson administration get to spend remaining COVID $bucks$ on whatever they want (CTU?)? Like so much progressive agenda stuff, it looks like what remaining COVID $bucks$ are going to be spent on are more temporary/ “free stuff” giveaways….nothing permanent, nothing lasting….no return on investment. And somehow this aspirational funding approach is the progressive solution to “community dis-investment”/ EQUITY bs, etc???
Probably going to give the money to the “I didn’t do nothin” crowd as per usual
This is pure insanity, and it’s happening around the country. Billions of dollars being spent simply to use up the taxpayer’s money. They can’t even figure out how to spend it! Rest assured it will end up in the pocket of some fraudster or lazy couch dweller. The Joe Biden Administration is the worst thing to ever happen to this country.
Usually ends up in the pockets of the politicians who are just as worthless as the lazy couch dwellers
Time to get rid of this incompetency
Good luck when the democrat voters are just as dumb at the morons they elect