Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer: Illinois Budget’s New Taxes Face Serious Constitutional Challenges
June 12, 2026
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Audio and summary linked here.
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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
The problem with all green plans is that politicians think all you have to do is dish out money and greenness just happens. I have yet to ever hear a plan that includes hard engineering, what parts and labor specifically need to be purchased by the trillions. Without that the trillions just go to legal bills. Cow farts are not going away unless you kill all the cows. You can’t simply pass a no farting law. Will these green woke politicians volunteer to stand in a pasture and shoot cows between the eyes with a rifle for a few hours,… Read more »
hahahhaha, the green is the color of money for buying votes, the ‘green’ has nothing to do with ecological soundness!
But Cory Booker says going vegan is the answer, I guess no more meat means no more cow farts. Instead of PETA throwing paint at people in furs yelling “You’re wearing someone’s mother” they’ll throw tofu patties at you and yell “You’re eating someone’s mother.”
The goals are admirable. Chicago’s recycling program is a big joke and should be low hanging fruit. But since Chicago’s going to have its hands full with lead abatement in the plumbing for the next couple of decades, there’s going to be enough resources for much else. Typically, when govt sets too many goals, it accomplishes none.
there’s *not* going to be enough resources for much else
Especially if they keep replacing waterlines with city worker working t&m instead of contracting out,,a unbalivable absurdity
Not that I read the Crain’s article, but their plan has nothing on Bernie.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7383255/Bernie-Sanders-unveils-16-3-trillion-Green-New-Deal-climate-plan.html