Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer: Spencer Pratt in Los Angeles Mayoral Race Offers Chicago a Blueprint
June 4, 2026
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With $162 billion more from taxpayers, couldn’t you deliver a few bond upgrades, too
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A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
It’s a housekeeping measure, designed to get any wealth they haven’t already confiscated. They’re thorough, gotta give them that. I have a suggestion for a tax: tax the increase in Reps and Sens net worth since they took office. You could call it a capitol gains tax.
Capitol idea!
There is a strange syndrome that effects every elected official–they start to believe what every sycophant tells them: You are the best, most important, wisest person, you are always right and you will be the next (insert next higher elected position name). They lose any connection to the people that elected them and operate fully and only in “power mode” in the bubble with other elected/anointed powerful people. In power mode they are omniscient, see the future and know (as the deluded always know) what is necessary to keep their bubble life going. We are the little people who should… Read more »
No problem, the wealthy would leave IL. Dems are also going to tax workers with 401 Ks? Workers put money away for retirement and the Dems are going to punish them for saving? This would not only targeting the wealthy, but workers who are being financially responsible. Typical Democrat move, all to support illegals, criminals, and Democratic fraud.
I wonder how they plan to enforce the tax on unrealized gains. How are they going to determine how much unrealized gains anyone has? And would they also rebate for unrealized losses?
don’t know about gains, but loses will not be rebated or if they are you will only be able to offset gains and any further loses will be subject to a limit as they currently do capital gains for us pions without insider information
Illinois. The next West Virginia. Keep up the good work guys
Pritzker would never sign it into law or he would have to leave the state. How about a determination of the percentage of the cost the consumer vs the public has to pay? (Say) 75% of the cost certainly should be paid by the consumer of the service with the public picking up the rest. If it’s unreasonably expensive to the consumer to pay 75% of the cost of the service the service should be reduced to a level where the consumers cost it reasonable or discontinue the service entirely. There should be no Free Ride on the backs of… Read more »
A wealth tax would never hold with the Illinois Supreme Court which has been bought and paid for by Pritzker. Besides Pritzker would never sign it because he would have to leave the state as well.
Putzger leave ??? Please don’t give me false hope
Whatever they are smoking in Springfield
it is really messing up their brains,
knock it off, idiots
Probably bummed it from Johnson.
Much focus on raising taxes and fees and zero on reducing budgets, fiscal restraint, pension reform, and creating wealth by being business and jobs friendly, just on redistributing money through the corrupt vessel of city, county and state government.