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
Work is so 2020, man.
Ah, the revenue drop, PPF was touting the fantastic, healthy revenue numbers as recently as three weeks ago. And then I pointed out that California, who is Illinois’ older progressive Wine Aunt, itself just had a massive revenue drop, and that we were next. And here we are…
The Illinois unemployment rate has consistently been one of the worst in the country during Governor Carnival Barker’s reign of terror. Yet our great local journalists never ask him about it. It’s weird that such poor performance in a fundamentally critical metric never gets questioned. Where are you Maryann Ahern?
HE PAYS WELL