Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer
April 22, 2026
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Summary and audio linked here.
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"Lawmakers in the Illinois General Assembly must read fast when they get final state budgets, because thousands of pages are dropped on them at the last minute before they must vote. They averaged about 67 seconds per page to digest the past nine state appropriations bills. For the past four years they had less than 30 seconds per page to read over 3,000 pages. Evelyn Wood would be proud."
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Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer: Chicago pension buyout plan mostly shifts debt rather than eliminating it, property tax surge doubles inflation over three decades
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Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.
It is a crime that Illinois State Government operates this way. The operation, greed and graft are the reasons Illinois is financially doomed. These people in office can’t stop screwing over the tax payer. I’ll bet there is a gigantic cut for Chicago Transit buried in there and of course we can’t forget to hide a few Billion for the Poor education business and the unions. Don’t forget about those NGO’s that provide such valuable services for the little people…and of course provide a nice honorarium to the people in office…that profit sharing split of the tax payer dollars is… Read more »
Will you feel the same way when that “big beautiful bill” passes for our next federal budget? I wonder how many seconds per page is allocated for the house? Just kidding. I realize we are practicing selective outrage.
I for one will feel great! Look at Trump’s term so far:
immigrants: GONE
anti-semite protesters: GONE
trans people: put in their place
abortion: soon to be outlawed
China and UK: groveling for trade deals
The man has earned our trust. The sooner we can cut commie handout programs like Social Sec., Medicare, and Medicaid…the better!
Your honesty is refreshing Paul Noname. Thanks for making my point better than I ever could have. The amount time to read a bill only matters if you don’t like the party proposing the budget. Everything else is just whining.
Also, no one is cutting SS, Medicare or Medicaid. You’re starting to believe the democrats BS.
lolol look, we’d all love to see s.s. and other mooch welfare of its ilk go the way of the dodo – but can trump deliver? johnson and co are probably too cowardly for real change!