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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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Lard Boy obviously you know where to eat but where is the Illinois Citizen to go –YOU CLOSED THE ESTABLISHMENTS!!!!!.The ONUS is on YOU!!!
The best help for Illinois is to impeach the Dictator
COVID did not close down bars and restaurants. You did that, Gov Pritzker.
You shut them done not once but twice with no laws in place to effectively enforce this so called executive order, now you go to Washington to beg for money because you literally know you screwed up and are trying to build points for a possible reelection, pound sand you incompetent jackass