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
“We’re very lucky that we live in Chicago which is a sanctuary city and Illinois which is a sanctuary state” NO, and NO. Virtue signaling has a price and it’s beginning to show a little bit. Expect major tax increases over the course of the next few years to pay for all this. Agenda 2030 is well underway.
Folk, I want to add two phrases to the National Spelling Bee contest; Illegal Alien and Public Charge.
One more- Border Jumper(s)
Same Edgewater community supports “sanctuary city” status, so seems appropriate there should be a migrant shelter there too.
“Hate has no Home” in Edgewater residents mindset, but sometimes your political rhetoric and virtue-signals come back to bite you. There are already many immigrants living there, so cultural adjustment should be relatively easy.
I have a co-worker/friend that is raising his family in one unit of a converted three flat in Edgewater rather than move to the ‘right-wing suburbs’ (shows how little they know the suburbs). He and his wife are increasingly becoming unhinged progressives. I’m sure that they support the illegal immigrants in theory (people cannot be illegal!) but likely have reservations about an illegal immigrant depot two blocks from their home. I saw him several months back and he asked if I still believed there was fraud in the 2020 election as a wide to poke back a deplorable. I loaded… Read more »
It’s hi,arious, the virtuous are suddenly shown unintended consequences. Like the tribune failing to understand a school. System that can’t teach basic reading might be bad for thevnespapers. Huh Whaaat!
Good for Edgewater. I hope they max out the space in the Armory. I just hope the economic migrants keep / spend some of the money in Chicago. Sending it back to Nicaragua instead of paying back to Chicago seems a bit unfair.