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
Heaven forbid low income people have to pay high property taxes. Yet it is these same people who line up to vote for every assistance program out there that raises everyone’s property taxes for their benefit. So, despite their being on the receiving end of the programs, it is unfair to make them pay their “fair share” making the rest of the population paying twice as much as they should? I should add though the Tribune has in the past supported many of the expensive programs that are causing the problem. Perhaps the first entity taxed more to pay for… Read more »
Seems like a back door attempt to make property taxes progressive . i.e. based on income and not property values. Another way to pander to the democrat base and stick it to homeowners that work for a living. There is no way to defend yourselves against this crap. The manipulate the system any way that suits them regardless of how bad it hurts you. I challenge any of you to come up with a realistic way of combatting this type of garbage. Short of a whole sale revolt, there is none.
Do you ever get the feeling that the progressives do not want the middle class homeowners in the State?
If that’s true, and we already know the “progressives” try to implement policy to encourage the affluent to leave, who will be left in IL to pay taxes? In any case, this scenario paints a gloomy picture of IL in the not-too-distant future.
They don’t want Middle class homeowners or any one else with a modicum of intelligence or self respect. They do however want their money.
The Country, as a whole, has been destroying the Middle Class for decades. That is what Communism is.
Kinda like inflation causes more inflation.