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Summary and audio linked here.
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.
Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The state’s existing buyout program for its own pensions is the precedent for Chicago, which should be a warning: Look out for similar exaggerated claims and shoddy analysis.
Full interview and summary linked here.
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The plan isnt even an ira, you get no tax break. Its a roth ira that anybody can open at fidelity, swab, etc
And you won’t pay a .75% management fee to the state at those other places, which is the charge for Secure Illinois.
Good point. Also in my ira/ roth i can buy or sell anything i want. Wonder if super progressive- frerichs has limited your choices to all social/ eco responsible funds in secure ill?