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.
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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
The guy ultimately in charge of all this mess is none other than our very own, DNC Presidential candidate JB the Hutt. He is hungry to bring this type of can-do management to the Federal Government.
Ah, Illinois—the state where billions are spent to make roads worse and politicians thrive on incompetence. The Democrats running the show have perfected the art of raising taxes and squandering funds. Roads crumbling? Raise taxes. Bridges collapsing? Add another toll. Efficiency? Who needs it when you’ve got pork projects and photo ops? At $98,386 per lane-mile—double what Minnesota spends—our money is flushed down the drain, while real infrastructure needs are ignored. And with Brandon Johnson in charge, things are spiraling faster. His “leadership” offers more taxes, more waste, and accountability only to the Chicago Teachers Union—the architects of a system… Read more »
Very good concise article but the headline says it all. Choose any subject related to Illinois (and most big cities in IL), politicians spend the most and get the worst results. EDUCATION to roads and on and on! LOL JB will have many good topics to defend in the presidential debates. Do you think he is up to it? He has no way to recover, he is doomed and doesn’t realize it.
No surprise how much Illinois spends per mile on roads. The state is run primarily for the benefit of organized labor, not for the general welfare of its citizens or taxpayers. Evidence is the high cost to educate children, build roads or provide pensions for retired public employees. The passage of Amendment One several years ago enshrines the fact that the welfare of organized labor has priority above the welfare of the general public. The purpose of road projects is to spend money to enrich unionized workers and road contractors who contribute to the politicians, not to benefit drivers.
The lottery was designed to help out education and transportation programs in IL. That has worked out so well.