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
In November 1980, over 40% of the nation surveyed the landscape: high inflation, hostages, bad economy, gas lines, high unemployment…..and they said, “Gimme more of that” and voted for Jimmy Carter. 44 years later we had the same national decision: vote for Kamala and a continuation of Biden’s insanity, or vote for Trump and some normalcy. 48% of the country surveyed the landscape and said, “I want more tampons in boys bathrooms” and voted for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.
Courtesy of several books, including Rock Island Requiem by Prof. Gregory L. Schneider, I reassessed some of my opinions of President Jimmy Carter. Presidents routinely complain about the ‘mess they inherited from my predecessor’. Not without reason, as our current situation after four years of rudderless authoritarian Regulatory State rule shows us. In January of 1977, President Carter inherited what my Brit colleagues would call ‘some real pretty <schite>’. Inflation was Bidenesque then, with nothing on the horizon to dissipate it. Industry was shutting down all through the rust belt even as the US Government found itself operating a giant… Read more »