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
The forest preserve exists not to preserve county forest land, but rather, to give patronage and nepotism jobs to county favorites. Preserving land is merely a byproduct of a growing bureaucracy, and as the bureaucracy grows, so does the amount of land preserved, which is why something like 10% of Cook County is owned by the forest preserve, including tiny little plots of land in the middle of nowhere just for the save of having some patronage hire come along and pick up the garage once a week.
Not true
Another tax silo in a forest of tax silos. Voters will look at this one tax increase and think it’s no big deal, forgetting that all the other tax silos all ask for the same increases. The referendum will pass easily and voters will wonder why their property tax bill is so high.