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
Middle class taxpayers leaving in droves isn’t a clear signal to cut spending, not raise taxes? Now the millionaires will leave. Is IL going to tax Pritzker’s off sure accounts? He Les a billionaire living in IL.
And how many of those 41,000 will still be here and taxable in 2030? You don’t have to kill the goose to stop getting the golden eggs; chasing them away has the same effect. Then all that are left are us ordinary geese to pay even more taxes.
No, Pat. The voters are not in favor of more taxes. They are in favor of spending cuts. This, of course, is true in well-run states, but not so much in parts of gerrymandered Illinois where leftist political animals run roughshod over the ones stuck with the ever larger tab run up by those same political animals. Useless Media member Michael J. Bologna is full of baloney in this love letter to Illinois leftists, specifically with his imprudent quotation of the left’s Bobby Bruno who was paid to create yet another rosy projection of the extra confiscated taxpayer funds expected… Read more »