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
Good article. Losing the Bears won’t do a thing to change Illinois when the buffoon of a governor blames team owners for the loss. And don’t sell Illinois short – they now have the lost the Bears, the (St. Louis) Cardinals and could still lose the White Sox, Cubs or Blackhawks. We could meet California yet!
I was 18 before I figured out that government workers got paid by the state or city as well. Pay to Play should be the name of the state. Not Illinois. Corrupt thieves one and all.
I have a friend who used to set up servers for call centers. Years ago when he was setting up a call center in Chicago he said it was Chicago electrical code to have something like a 12 foot power cord on the servers and that no servers came from the factory with a 12 foot power cord, nor did you need a cord that long to install the servers into a rack. What the Chicago code did require was a union electrician to install the cord on a guaranteed minimum two hour call out for essentially a 10 minute job my… Read more »
Solid perspective and so true. All units of government in Illinois, including school and library districts, have it backwards. They think the citizen works for them, rather than they work for the citizen. The lack of private companies investing in Illinois is evidence of this reality. I see only 1 construction crane in Chicago, while there are many up 94 over the Wisconsin border. There should be 10 to 20 in Cook County. Tells you something.
Another reason, if like they need another, the cost of building a Bears stadium in Indiana will be substantially less.