Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer
April 22, 2026
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Summary and audio linked here.
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"Chicago property taxpayers fund public education. But their money should follow the kids, not be used only to prop up the adults in the system. It is the civil rights issue of our time. And each day that militant teacher union leaders keep schools closed is another reason why we must not wait any longer."
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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
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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.
John Kass has lost every bit of integrity with his love for Lori. He needs to quit as he has become a gutless RINO coward.
Conservatives need to think carefully before jumping in with both feet on vouchers. Vouchers are just as likely to pull down well-run schools to the level of public schools as they are to bring up the level of overall education. Rather like the person trying to save someone who is drowning who ends up being pulled under himself. Let’s not fall into the liberal thought process and be overly simplistic in our thinking. Vouchers alone are not a panacea that will solve all the problems in education. They may just spread dysfunction farther afield. And no, I am not a… Read more »
You sound like a pro union loser.