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
There are already TONS of “workforce programs” for the “underprivileged”. One of my former employers – an agency that trains low – income people for good manufacturing careers – opened a snazzy new training facility in The Chatham Education and Workforce Center one year ago. These trainings lead to good and high – paying manufacturing careers – IF you want to work, that is. In one year’s time, how many in “the community” even made any *inquiries* about the training programs offered? You guessed it – ZERO! So the facility that “the community” begged and pleaded for sits empty. After… Read more »
Yes again, our taxes wasted on another unused/underused resource.
And yes, in a culture of handouts it takes a strong individual to break the freebie habit.
Uh, those kids don’t want to work. If they want something they just go into their favorite high end store and take it. Then they take the nicest car on the street home. Easy peasy.
Vallas, your’e an idiot
Well-meaning, but he doesn’t read the room very well.