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
What a bunch of party line canned dribble. And what a shame for Illinois. Many of us remember Durbin when he was a state legislator from Springfield. He was a real moderate Democratic, consensus builder, and worked quite well with Republicans on innumerable common sense pieces of legislation. It is sad to see what thirty years or more in DC does to a pretty good guy who used to be a solid Midwestern pragmatist. And by the way, no one has ever seriously looked into his wife’s lobbying business over the decades. Both at the state and federal level, she… Read more »
If anyone thinks $350 million to extend the Redline is a good idea, they don’t know Dick.