The first act of the board was to buoy CTA, Metra and Pace with a quarter-percent sales tax increase. 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
More money for paper pushers and people to drive empty buses and trains around.
Gas tax and now increase the people trying to get to work on the tollway to fund the transit authority they will never use and the buses haven’t had a fair increase for almost a decade almost sounds like Mamdani’s socialist plan
I bet downstate just enjoys funding Chicagoans transportation
Lovely. As part of the self-immolation act that created NITA, elected Illinois political animals ceded responsibility for sales tax hikes to an unelected board comprised of friends and pals of political animals.
Wait…I thought the elected political animals solved the funding shortfall for the transit slush fund during the last session. Now they need still more?