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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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Everything the guy does alienates people. We have high Covid rates and an economy in free fall. This is what happens when you elect an out of touch silver spoon tub of goo as governor. By the time this is over, the governor with presidential ambitions won’t be able to get elected as dog catcher.
Try it. I dare you.
Let’s shut down retail at their most important time of the year. Why not save the step and simply shut the small stores down permanently?
Yeah, good luck enforcing it this time.
i intentionally went out and shopped every day when Jabba ordered that first one. I went to Menards, Walmart, grocery stores. Bought too much.
i don’t think I’d be alone this time.
And if this happens then he would really wonder why Illinois is not doing well.
Lard Boy is clueless.
But it is OK for rolly polly –Illinois health director–to be out waddling around celebrating with others.
Perhaps Illinois is sick and tired of listening to a tyrant who spews –DO as I say NOT as I DO.