Pritzker faces questions from Democrats, Republicans ahead of budget address – Center Square

State Rep. Jeff Keicher, R-Sycamore, said ending business incentives is the wrong approach. “We need to grow the economy. We have been in this horrible position long before my arrival in the General Assembly and it is our job to put a shot in the arm of the Illinois economy and get us moving forward.”

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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

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.

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