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
Evanston continues to let Northwestern shirk its “good neighbor” fiscal contribution to Evanston’s municipal operating costs – which aren’t cheap, and reflect Northwestern’s progressive politics.
Mayor Biss could lead his city council towards sharp-pencil reductions in spending, but rather chooses to accept Northwestern’s continued refusal to execute a “Payment in Lieu of Taxes” PILOT agreement.
Cambridge Massachusetts gets $7 million every year from Harvard.
New Haven Connecticut gets $11 million from Yale.
Princeton New Jersey gets $3.6 million from Princeton.
Translation: we need more money to waste and to make us feel better about ourselves.
Dear Mr. Mayor, progressives never embrace new ideas, they simply take money from the makers in society, and give it to the takers. What’s new about that age old scheme? Once a thief, always a thief.
“Our progressive values and ambition require funding to realize, and, unless we embrace growth and new ideas, we won’t be able to access that funding without unfairly burdening those who can least afford to pay.”
Translation: More money down the drain for useless feel – good stuff like ‘reparations’, homeless ‘services’, and the like…