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.
-- Connecting the dots between our economy, government and business --
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
Sims spouts this even Illinois economic growth lags far behind other, more responsible Midwestern states. This budget rewards the friends and pals, while the chumbolones have to do with less.
The spending rampage rumbles on.
Somebody should get Elgie Sims to a doctor immediately. He has obviously suffered brain trauma.
and if you believe him I have ocean front property in arizona and nevada for sale
“Illinois is on the right track.” How can that be, with Illinois’ huge, crushing, off-the-chart debt and continually new and increased taxes and fees? When these IL pols leave, retire, die, or otherwise vacate their jobs, will they care about the desolation they helped to accelerate?
A Progressive Utopia is like the Field of Dreams: If you build it, they will come. And in many ways, this is true. IL has built a progressive utopia, and the poor, uneducated and illiterate unmarried military aged men are showing up by the hundreds of thousands to live for free in shelters.