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
Hmm, where’d the CTU get millions to grease pols?
Bribery. And precisely why Illinois taxpayers owe ZERO to the scum of Public Sector Unions Pensions. They are criminally ill gotten gains and the pensioners don’t deserve a red stolen cent.
Okay, Adolph. Make it happen.
It’s called campaign contributions and it’s perfectly legal and encouraged. Money is free speech as SCOTUS ruled. They also negotiate these contracts collectively, also guaranteed under the Illinois Constitution. They deserve EVERY penny that was negotiated by LAW. All legal and supported by the voters.
Except it’s against the unions own contract to do this, proving members really don’t matter.
Just as voters in other elections, if members don’t like their union’s fiscal habits they are free to vote in different leaders. Instead, CTU continues to be quite effective at getting fair wages and benefits that satisfy their members. Ultimately, this is the number one thing that union members desire. Not everyone will agree on every issue but it’s this contractual success that satisfies the members. Proving they do matter.