24 states have cut their income taxes, including all of Illinois’s neighbors. Illinoisans get nothing. – Wirepoints on AM 560 Chicago’s Morning Answer

Ted joined Dan and Amy to talk about how Chicago and Illinois have deeply rooted legalized corruption, how 24 states have cut taxes in the past 3 years, why Chicago police and fire pensions are heavily underfunded, the fraudulent worker’s comp claim that Jenny Thornley allegedly received with the help of Gov. Pritzker, and more. 

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Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer: Chicago pension buyout plan mostly shifts debt rather than eliminating it, property tax surge doubles inflation over three decades

Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.

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