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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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The stupid idiot permanent victim class and progressive liberals will vote for him. The Illinois cook county people are just incredibly stupid.
How can 18% have no opinion after all that has taken place this last year?
Guaranteed they will vote for JB though.
It doesn’t matter who the GOP nominates, whoever it is will be smeared as a far right nazi
JB personifies Illinois government
“or creates his own luck by quietly helping a far-right candidate across the finish line”:
Oh Rich, everyone to the right of a progressive is ‘far right’. They’re too ignorant to even realize the nuances between the right. They’re too busy fighting over who is a progressive and who is a communist.
Lard A** is a jack wang.
He is the picture of being flawed.