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
This company was formerly part of Baxter and was therefore already located in Illinois. That omission makes it sound like Pritzker and policies attracted a Global Healthcare Company to relocate to Illinois.
Another political stunt
Seems like this genius of a CEO is ignoring his duty to maximize profits for his shareholders.
Maybe he’ll figure this out when he goes to the first meeting of CEO’s New to Illinois and realizes he’s the only one at the meeting.
50 new jobs? Across the river in GA from us in SC, Hyundai is building a $7.6 billion dollar plant that will employ 8500 highly paid workers from around the area. Compare this puny IL investment with some of the big new plants being built, mostly in red states, that will employ hundreds of workers. Good job, Pritzker. 50 new jobs but how many people left IL this month?
Wow! 50 new employees. Their income should solve our pension and excessive property tax burden. I can sleep better now.
It will also really lower the high IL
unemployment rate.