Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer: Illinois Budget’s New Taxes Face Serious Constitutional Challenges
June 12, 2026
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Audio and summary linked here.
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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
Invest? What returns are available to the folks from whom the earnings are confiscated?
Redistribution
When one of the recipients of the free money wins the Power Ball prize this program will be celebrated as a grand success, and become a model for other free money programs.
“Direct investment in low income people.” Just make sure they’re sober on election day.
With mail in ballots and drop boxes, they don’t even need to be driven to the polls any more.
In my neighborhood the polling place is inside a public housing project and magically there are hundreds of people I’ve never seen before walking around on election day who disappear again when the polls close. Must be a coincidence.
If every level of Illinois government had a guaranteed income program, we’d all be rich. I can’t wait for the Mosquito Abatement District to offer one.
Lol! The mosquito trucks blasting a greasy white cloud behind them. Kids following closely behind on their bikes. They probably all got the jumps in their later years or thought of guaranteed income.
Sorry Toni. There’s an old southern expression that fits here: “Poor folks have poor ways.”
Cook County must have more money than it needs to be so generous. Funny, I didn’t hear anything about the county getting caught up on all its debt obligations.