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
If the politicians in this state were paying attention, they could have taken the $1.6billion they spent on healthcare costs for illegals and refunded it to taxpayers. Seems like proof they are collecting too much tax revenue when a dollar amount of this size can go unchecked, blowing past appropriations, without repercussions.
They are running over $5 billion in deficits by shorting pension payments. You are not getting any money back as long as our budget isn’t truly balanced.
Alas. Pensions Paid First is correct.
1 percent cap for homesteads, stop all these task forces and relief plans that aren’t going anywhere. Put it on the 2026 ballot for a constitutional change, end the game of cat and mouse.
All that would do is increase taxes elsewhere. If you want property tax reform you will need to agree to raise taxes elsewhere.