Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer: Illinois Budget’s New Taxes Face Serious Constitutional Challenges
June 12, 2026
2 Comments
Audio and summary linked here.
-- Connecting the dots between our economy, government and business --
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
This article is laughable, using unverifiable metrics to argue for expansion of an incredibly costly and inefficient public entity that is fiscally unsustainable without massive infusion of public funds. How exactly do they determine the race of riders? Sorry Kirk, we rate your claims as entirely BS.
It’s an investment.
Like all guvmnt projects that need more money from taxpayers.
Respectfully disagree. I don’t think there is any question that mass transit is relied on more heavily by lower income groups, who are more often minorities. Yes, Dillard stooped to use the the left’s petty language like “LatinX” and “equity,” but I think his central point is true.
That’s fair Mark. I do believe that when incorporating the train lines into the city as part of the total, the numbers narrow considerably. I road the trains for decades and have no idea how they counted me or the thousands of others.
There’s zero chance that Kirk Dillard actually believes what he says in public, but he says stuff like this because he loves his multiple government pensions more than he loves the truth.