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: "When Champaign County voters emphatically rejected three tax hike proposals in November, their actions raised the following question: How will the powers that be respond? City of Champaign Township Supervisor Kyle Patterson wasted no time in thumbing his nose at voters. Barely two months later, Patterson and members of the township board are back with virtually the same proposal for the April 1 consolidated election."
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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.
When voters say no, you pass your shady, unpopular edicts in the dead of night. After all, this is IL.
Township Government should be abolished, I have been a proponent for over 30 years. Illinois has 17 counties without township government and its tax burden. Members of the General Assembly, take action! Get rid of these tax thieves in the other 85 counties.
When your only tool is a hammer…
…everything gets taxed.