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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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Yet, our gerrymandered legislature focuses exclusively on the issues a narrow subset of progressive issues rejected by a majority of state.
I’ve been saying for years, IL is only a facade of a democracy. It is run by progressives, for progressives, while actively trying to punish and harm everyone else. And there is nothing anyone can do about it because too many people ‘Vote Blue No Matter Who’.