Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer: Illinois Budget’s New Taxes Face Serious Constitutional Challenges
June 12, 2026
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-- Connecting the dots between our economy, government and business --
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
When we run out of productive businesses and individuals to extort, the hunger games will begin. Does our ship of fools really believe that free s*it lasts forever, even if you were not born a billionaire? Few businesses will pay these confiscatory taxes because it is not economically prudent or possible, and they are not even offered protection from criminals.
Easy Choice owners Leave cook county!
ummm…it wasn’t a choice that his family business started in 1947 will be shutting down because of Google and the hot west side real estate market.
Dollars to doughnuts Google or the developer who brought them to Fulton Market RECEIVED tax money to do so while this poor schmuck gets a 400% increase to pay for that. And lets be clear too, 1943 W. Walnut is not some Shangri-La, there are active public housing projects just across the tracks. I’m sure the owner looks out every day and marvels at the utopia of junkies, hookers, flaming hot cheeto bags and broken glass all around justifying his 400% tax increase.