Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer
April 22, 2026
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Summary and audio linked here.
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Jim Dey: "Gov. JB Pritzker and state legislators just passed a record-setting $53.1 billion spending plan for the fiscal year that begins July 1. ... So revenues, obviously, have to keep up with planned spending to avoid budget chaos. With just one month remaining in the current 2023-24 fiscal year, overall state revenues of $47.7 billion are up by $986 million over the same period in FY 23-24. By itself, that is an impressive figure, but (State revenue manager Eric) Noggle said that’s 'just 2.1 percent above last year’s 11-month total.'"
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Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer: Chicago pension buyout plan mostly shifts debt rather than eliminating it, property tax surge doubles inflation over three decades
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Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.
Imagine if spending was ever actually restrained, and the opportunity was taken to apply excess revenues to the pile of iou’s.