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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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Never.
Jag Boy has NO IDEA what he is doing.
Most people know what he is doing–RUINING ILLINOIS!!
It’s time for the people and businesses in Illinois to take this into are own hands and open up and move on it’s obvious this man doesn’t want the state to reopen, remember it’s not law he cannot do a damn thing to any of us. If things don’t get rolling soon this state is completely done for no looking back. Remember when he stated phase 5 a vaccine readily available and the economy will open up, so what has changed now Pritzker your crystal ball broken you are oblivious to what you are doing this is and will be… Read more »
It’s not about the science anymore. Now it’s all about how JB feels about things. If JB sees his shadow will it be 6 more weeks of lockdown?