Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer: Illinois Budget’s New Taxes Face Serious Constitutional Challenges
June 12, 2026
2 Comments
Audio and summary linked here.
-- 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
I can predict this study-group’s recommendation: Raise taxes, fund pensions.
Put a bunch of union-representatives and union employees on a study-group to “study” pension funding, and you get a predictable outcome. Does Mayor Johnson think this a group-report somehow affords him political shelter from taxpayers upset by all his proposed new $$$$$ taxes?
“I can predict this study-group’s recommendation: Raise taxes, fund pensions.”
At least that would be an honest report. More taxes are needed and pensions need to be funded. Now who’s taxes will go up? That’s the real point of the “study”.
Not mine as I will follow the huge crowd of successful people burning rubber to get out of the state. Best of luck collecting any money from illegal immigrants and gang members.
Study?? WAHAHA GAAEK! HMMMM…the state legislature Jjudt gave themselves a rsise! A RAISEWill that contribute to higher pension?
costs?
Take a look at the members– the mayor’s finance team, state legislators (I wonder how many Republicans) and union representatives. I’ll bet we get a really objective, financially sound and totally realistic analysis from this posse of lackeys.
Yep. Identifying “revenue sources-n-reforms.” The usual-suspects working up a lather discussing how much blood they can get from a turnip, without being allowed to conclude that the answer is ‘none.’