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
You want to reduce crime? Lock up the bad guys. Not difficult. Now bring me my billion dollars!
Yes, lock up the bad guys … but that doesn’t address the underlying problem: the violent culture in the poor black community. Fatherless children who are raised by the streets. Poor parenting, if any at all. Hand out, not hand up attitude. All the liberal sympathy for the ‘underserved.’ It’s become endemic to the point that blacks are considered unable to survive without government help. How insulting! Food deserts? Lack of retail? Loot and burn and that’s what happens – retail closes up shop. All blacks? of course not! A small vocal percentage of the black community ascribes to this… Read more »
To fix crime should not cost one cent!
Just do your da-ed job!
Windbag says throw money at the violence! Has this work in the past? No!
It costs zero dollars to elect officials that know how to govern. The money is there but it needs to stop lining the pockets of people that are politically connected and instead directed to effective programs. No more taxpayers dollars need to go to lost causes, we have enough of those.