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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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I honestly thought ‘Juneteenth’ was a typo – never heard of it.
In most traditions the flag at half-mast is a sign of mourning. Despite all the lingering difficulties, wasn’t the end of slavery something to celebrate? And why not celebrate it on the date of the Emancipation Proclamation? Or maybe the date of ratification of the 13th Amendment? Or maybe the date Illinois became the first state to ratify?
Personally, I don’t have a flag. If I did, I suppose it would be black.
Whatever the anarcho-capitalist flag looks like, count me in.
I’ll take remembrance and pray for all the White, young, the helpless elderly, the veterans maimed and murdered, by systemic black racism.
Not my flag. Come to my house and try to lower it Fatboy
Right with you sir
Not on my watch, go to hell Pritzker
And all the rest of them GTH, pulling down America’s Monuments, destroying cities, murdering police!
My Flag comes down today!
Pander, pander, pander. And how fitting is it that a Texan set the bar for that pandering?
You know he will be elected again,and again.He destroyed the economy,So the dems can have communism take over just like they want,And you still live there Illinois citizen.Will you stay till they won’t let you leave.
Heard that in 2019 an attempt was made to institute a penalty for selling home in IL and not re-buying in IL. Hope that’s moot, but personally working to beat that possibility as we speak.