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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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Why don’t they just get to the point: “Tax all white people plus an additional tax on white men.” This is their goal of ‘reparations’: Take from white people for their sin of being born white and born racists and give directly to black people.
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
Today the slaves are the poor honest taxpayer and their children.
Government does not work for you, you work for the government.
Illinois “Land of Slavery”
Repetitions supporter Louis Farrakhan mentioned that Blacks would just spend the reparations money. ?
My great great grandfather was so severely wounded at one of the early battles of the Civil War that he was crippled for life and these ingrates are demanding reparations from me!?
Seems like you should get reparations from ancestors of former slaves.
Illinois was a free state. Slavery was not legal here so why is any governmental body in Illinois interested in paying money to people that have never been slaves.
ummm its why they do anything… to get votes to stay in power…
Although slavery was illegal in Illinois, there were slaveholders and slaves in southern Illinois.
The reparations movement encompasses more than only compensating ancestors of slaves.
Stating the above is not advocating reparations.
Very, very small number of slaveholders and slaves in southern IL, when it was still part of the NW territories.
First this article from a Roger Bridges (former Director of the Illinois State Historical Library) about the Illinois Black Codes. The State Historical Library is in / merged with the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield. “Although Illinois entered the Union nominally as a free state in 1818, slavery had existed there for nearly one hundred years. It would continue to exist, albeit under increasing restrictions, until 1845.” “By 1845, however, the last legal remnants of slavery ended when the state supreme court in Jarrot v. Jarrot, declared that even the slaves introduced by… Read more »
Exactly, a very small number. And since blacks were banned from living here too, it’s difficult to ask me to pay reparations to people who have no connection to this land pre-emancipation and only a very small and tenuous connection to slavery. They’d be better off asking the descendants of French traders for some cash money payments instead. Because my Polish ancestors didn’t get off the boat in the 1890’s so their great-great-grandchildren could pay reparations for former slaves, after they had just escaped serfdom. Also, don’t EVER quote wikipedia. Bleed them dry, don’t visit that liberal site. Wrongthink… Read more »
The Chronology of Illinois History by Janice A. Petterchak on the IDNR Historic Preservation website states the population of Illinois was 34,620 in 1818. https://www2.illinois.gov/dnrhistoric/Research/Pages/Timeline.aspx 900 slaves (previous source) / 34,620 population = 2.6% slaves. Here’s some more information compiled from the Illinois Secretary of State, Illinois State Archives document titled, “African-American Records, Genealogical Research Series Pamphlet No. 6.” 1720 – The director general of mines for the Company of the Indies arrived with African slaves. 1732 – About 165 Africans among 284 slaves lived at the French settlements of Cahokia and Kaskaskia (there were… Read more »
“It should be remembered that what is now Illinois was slave territory when France claimed it, and also when Great Britain owned it. When this territory came into the possession of the United States by the treaty of 1783, this government guaranteed to British subjects living within the limits of the region north of the Ohio, the right of ownership of their property—which guaranteed to them the ownership of their slaves. And although the Ordinance of 1787 forbade slavery, the courts held that those slaves already held in Illinois could still be legally held, as well as their… Read more »
You put your money, not my money, where your mouth is.