Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer
April 22, 2026
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Republicans rip Illinois and three other blue states for keeping taxes on tips, overtime after Trump reprieve – FOX News
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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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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.
How long before JB the Hutt joins in with Hopeless Hochul’s chorus begging Illinois expatriates to return and pay his big fat taxes?
Lots of wealthy Americans voting with their feet and leaving high and higher tax states like Taxistan.
The message is load and clear from Pritzker – You little working people are tax slaves for Democrats. And like sheep, many will keep voting Democrat, particularly minorities.
June 1 thanks to PIGSTER the gasoline tax will increase by INFLATION. Currently 49 cents a GALLON. While EV’s are IMMUNE from this tax . Don’t tell me you pay for EV’s plates because I’ll gladly pay that instead of the FUEL TAX imposed by Federal , State and county fuel taxes .
Then get an EV. That’s your choice. It’s an incentive to get an EV. Otherwise you will pay more in fuel taxes every year. Don’t worry though, eventually if enough people by an EV, the state will just change to the tax laws and most likely start charging a mileage tax. The state needs the money for all the spending they want and they will get it one way or another.
Don’t you worry your pensioned little head.
Your pals will raise fees on you and for AWFL Electrogolfcart-driving friends soon enough.
Pritzker and the Democrats need those taxes to fund illegals, out of state abortion seekers, far left policies, and possibly to pay our fraud. Same reason that he won’t suspend the gas tax.
How can this be? Gov Pritzkers campaign promise is to lower taxes on working families?! No?
The City is forcing higher wages in tipped occupations. As patrons realize their restaurant bill is covering higher proportions of total wages through food costs (the bill), tips and total employment will fall while sales tax collections will increase. It’s interesting that the City, in forcing higher wages, is effectively creating a mini-sales tax revenue “windfall” for the state, which in turn is threatening to remove such decisions from municipal control, all the while wailing about Trump’s gas prices and quietly enjoying greatly increased revenue from the sales tax on gasoline. The decline of civilization can get complicated–circular firing squads… Read more »