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This apparently is a rebuttal to Wirepoints' recent article about why you don't raise taxes during a recession.
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Audio and summary Illinois bill would override local law to allow homeless living in all public parks – Wirepoints
April 14, 2026
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If this bill passes, say goodbye to local control over all Illinois parks and expect to see open drug and alcohol use, needles, no sanitation and fire hazards, but no ordinary park users.
Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer: Chicago Fiscal Crisis Worse Than Pre-Bankruptcy Detroit, HIV Surge and Public Health Threat From Open Borders Goes Unreported
April 10, 2026
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Summary and audio linked here.
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
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.
WBEZ and Chicago Sun-Times falsely blame Texas Gov. Abbott for 2020 to 2024 surge in Chicago Latino HIV, AIDS infections – Wirepoints Quickpoint
March 31, 2026
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Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
Cox writes–“Yes, it removes money from the overall economy, but the revenue better enables the state and local governments to keep police officers, firefighters, and teachers employed, while not coincidentally funding essential services, including that unemployment insurance so desperately needed by those out of work. That money goes right back into the economy.”….but thats a lie because directly or indirectly all the new revenue goes towards debt (pension debt) for are promised public sect ,zero risk/ zero layoff under compensated heros (129,000+ projected pension tax free millionares at state level alone) because paying the pensions comes ahead of paying for… Read more »
“Yes, it removes money from the overall economy,…That money goes right back into the economy.” Why not just skip the middle man and have everyone work for the government?