Wirepoints Founder Mark Glennon joins the Annie Frey Show to discuss the Illinois Green New Deal bill which is heading to the house floor. They discuss what’s in it and what it means for Illinoisans.
Audio: Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon says Chicago pension buyout plan mostly shifts debt rather than eliminating it, property tax surge doubles inflation over three decades – Chicago’s Morning Answer
April 3, 2026
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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.
Illinois lost another 54,000 tax filers and dependents, net, according to the IRS. Since 2000, fleeing taxpayers have taken $94 billion of annual adjusted gross income with them.
This is a very good site to learn about United Nations Agenda 21 initiatives and how it can be recognized. You can also search the name Rosa Korie who has been fighting Agenda 21 initiatives for many years. Agenda 21 is the tool of the globalists, the elite and the World Economic Forum’s push for world dominance..The Great Reset. By the way…if you’re not aware…Agenda 21 calls for a 95% global population reduction. As Klaus Schwab Schwab has said at the WEF, “the coronavirus presents a unique opportunity”. Plandemic. Create a virus (problem), find the need (cure the virus), create… Read more »
This bill is all about United Nations Agenda 21. Pritzker and his commies will push for this and if people don’t wake up to UN Agenda 21…NOW…These initiatives will continue to be implemented. Other states are implementing similar initiatives.
https://www.sierraclub.org/trade/green-new-deal-already-underway-states-and-cities
Great Interview!
What I find interesting is the high level of reporting happening in the web / podcast space compared to not even national mainstream, but local media ( ABC, WGN and the like), all allegedly J school certified.
They just are not covering anything worthwhile. Just sensationalism, as if they were all back in high school.
Please keep up this level of reporting and writing, the adults in society benefit from it and thank-you.
Politicians who are good at staying in office a long time are good at getting voters to lose sight of issues that are bad for them. This 900 page monstrosity is a great distractor. Let’s talk about saving the world and saving the planet and getting solar and wind and environmental handouts to all those identified overlooked little people. Let’s not talk about the pending state and Chicago fiscal collapse, rampant crime, debacles at IDES and Covid roll out, heartbreaking school closures, the collapse of our restaurant and convention industries, population loss or high taxes. The Dems are very good… Read more »
Fantastic interview, worth watching