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“Now lawmakers must address a multi-billion dollar budget gap without the ability to ask the wealthy to pay their fair share. Fair Tax opponents must answer for whatever comes next,” said Quentin Fulks, chair of the Pritzker-funded Vote Yes for Fairness group, pointing the finger at “Republican legislators and their billionaire allies” who opposed it.
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Audio and summary Illinois bill would override local law to allow homeless living in all public parks – Wirepoints
April 14, 2026
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If this bill passes, say goodbye to local control over all Illinois parks and expect to see open drug and alcohol use, needles, no sanitation and fire hazards, but no ordinary park users.
Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer: Chicago Fiscal Crisis Worse Than Pre-Bankruptcy Detroit, HIV Surge and Public Health Threat From Open Borders Goes Unreported
April 10, 2026
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Summary and audio linked here.
Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer: Chicago pension buyout plan mostly shifts debt rather than eliminating it, property tax surge doubles inflation over three decades
April 3, 2026
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Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.
WBEZ and Chicago Sun-Times falsely blame Texas Gov. Abbott for 2020 to 2024 surge in Chicago Latino HIV, AIDS infections – Wirepoints Quickpoint
March 31, 2026
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Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
When will this whiny fat slob stop his infantile temper tantrum and be a man?
Illinois Democrats should go into the Maggot Gagging business. That, they could handle. That stupid slob Pritzker is beyond pathetic. And Rod went to PRISON??? If the Feds give money to the morons of Springfield it will be just more gasoline on an inflation problem that will be horrible! These government idiots could not run a hot dog stand!
There were so many real incremental solutions that could have been implemented this year to help fix the budget mess. But Pritzker and Madigan are arrogant.
Waiting for the next fiasco from Pritzker.
Madigan and his Useful Idiot will be back Be on the lookout for a back-door bailout via “Should Congress destroy the municipal bond market?”; billions of 10year money at .25% courtesy of Federal Press. And the Springfield politburo can still do as they please.
if you live in Schaumburg, Naperville, or downtown Chicago with a family , land taxes, income taxes, high insurance, etc. at $250k/yr you are NOT rich…you are barely surviving and we do not get the rich juicy pensions their union pals get ! I do NOT agree with this politics of division and attack on those of us who worked hard, went to college, and have done everything right our entire lives. I do NOT appreciate being attacked as being “bad” by the Demo-rats…btw those who make more than $250k/yr already pay WAY more in taxes than those who make… Read more »
Still have not seen any cuts by the state, or a reversal of the pay increase JB gave the unions in July. Alternatively, in the private sector, huge swaths have had pay cuts, and many jobs have been eliminates. Often numbers in the 10% to 20% range. What makes the state leadership think they don’t have to tighten their belts also. Time to lead. The cuts should have been the first move.
Until Public Sector Unions are busted in Illinois nothing will change. SEIU, AFSCME, CTU an d IFT donate (bribe) millions to Democrats and provide election time door knockers and election place electioneering (I saw many of these schlubs on their paid day-off yesterday at polling places). This cash and boots-on-the-ground is the lifeblood of the criminal Illinois Democrat party. In exchange they see ZERO jobcuts during this Wuhan Virus and instead have pay raises enjoy no-work “jobs” and retire multimillionaires. If the IL Democrats were to address any of Illinois financial problems via cost cutting, privatization and efficiency measures they… Read more »
everyone needs to pay, or else these criminal politicians won’t be held accountable!
There is absolutely nothing stopping the billionaire Pritzker’s from donating their $$$ to the state treasury – put your money where your mouth is, or please STF up!
Trump gives back his salary but Lard boy would never do such a thing. It is all about getting his fat hands into your bank account.
Jabba The Failed Banker spent $50 million of his own money on advertising this scam but can;t seem to come up with $10 million to settle the court proceedings on his failed bank.