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
As we’ve discussed here before, most Illinois colleges are atrocious DEI hellholes that make the racism in the Ivy League look reasonable. The quality of the education is very low but the tuition is high – only for some – as downstate they try to give away the education for FREE to low and middle income (preferably minority) student and they still don’t get very many takers. Heck, the schools are now ACT/SAT optional so students don’t even need an average test score to attend college. The schools are full of students less than midwits, which at least confers some… Read more »
No responsible parent should send their kid to a college in Illinois. While there are good colleges in Illinois, there are good colleges all over the US. You could buy a nice house that’s right next to railroad tracks or a highway, but why would you do that when there’s millions of nice houses not next to railroad tracks or highways? Kids need to get out of their comfort zone and go to school in another region of this great country of ours and experience a different side of American culture. I had a family member go to college in… Read more »
Behind the scenes the big push by machine that nobody reports on is $$$$ EBF $$$$ for Illinois higher ED, SB3965 (https://www.billtrack50.com/billdetail/1748309).
To go along with all the other zillions of bills that have been introduced to lock in funding levels, TIER II, etc, etc as the ARPA-COVID $spending$ bonanza runs dry and Trump admin threatens to cut dept of Ed, medicaid gravy train, etc, etc
If your a dopey chump taxpayer/homeowner your a sitting duck.
Stop taking foreign students for high demand majors. IL students have to leave the state to get into these high demand majors due to foreign students.
It has always been a struggle for lower middle class people to finish college. Everyone assumes your parents can help with college costs but sometimes they can’t. It took my husband 6 years to get his degree (University of Illinois Chicago) because he was working full-time. (He subsisted on cabbage and potatoes and was very skinny when I met him.) I was high school valedictorian but did not win a full scholarship so I finished my degree at Chicago State University. (Chicago State used to be very affordable.) I had nine siblings so did not expect financial help from my… Read more »
Bravo to you and your husband, Reese. Proud to have folks like you as readers here.
Fantastic and inspirational story! Congratulations to both of you to work so hard and share the same goals! THIS is how you become a success in life. Do not follow the herd, forge your own path. Like your husband, I worked full time during college on a night job downtown. I’d go to school in the morning, study or sleep in the library in the afternoon, then go to my job at 5pm. Then do it again the next day. Over and over and over. Not only did I graduate in 4 years debt free, my employer paid half of… Read more »
Well, I think your example is inspirational. It is great to have the employer help pay for college. Smart strategy on your part.
Your story is very similar to ours. My husband worked 3 jobs and took all the loans offered to a student to finish school. He’s a very intelligent person but had little time to study… he graduated on time but didn’t have the grades he should have had. He lived off hotdogs and Ramon noodles (sounds like your husband went a healthier route). His divorced mom would send him $5 per month. Dad sent nothing. Even in the early 90’s, $5 a month didn’t help much. It took us years to pay off his loans, but we did it. A… Read more »
Bet a lot of people can relate to our experiences. Congratulations to your husband for graduating on time. Only 41% of American students today graduate from college in four years.
Much of the tuition money goes to salaries, benefits, and pensions. Unsustainable at current levels but going higher likely. As long as students can get large loans there is always money. Stop the funding and solve the problem. Free market forces will correct the issues.
Here is some info for state universities pensions. Hope you are sitting down.
https://pensions.illinoisanswers.org/?welcome=true?welcome=true#system-funding
Just click state universities in the drop down box or any of them.
I started reading after clicking on your link but got too depressed to finish.
The numbers are just obscene. The decision makers who pay these people are to blame for this abomination. Our legislators focus on time changes, flags and other stupidity while this goes on. Pathetic.