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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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I do not believe numbers or increases or anything coming out of Jag Boy’s mouth or Lighthead or any of the so called doctors. The MSM is a joke. Illinois is the laughing stock of the country. You know he never wanted to open the state of Illinois. He wants the state of Illinois to be a representation of Socialism.
Interesting isn’t it just as 69% of the seniors are vaccinated bingo hospitalizations jump up and Pritzker moves the goal post again another lie from a fat fool and how convenient is this timing someone needs to stop this man in his tracks, hope the lawsuit in sangamon county goes in the favor of Fire Fox restaurant this crap has to stop with these rolling executive orders. Springfield legislators you are to blame also by giving Pritzker blanket authority to do what he wants when he wants. Springfield Welch you want the people of Illinois to trust you politicians go… Read more »
“wake up people of Illinois and make the change in 2022 get rid of this governor in Springfield at all cost.”
That will do thing to solve IL’s problems. Every Democrat at every level of government needs to be run out of office or imprisoned, starting at the top and working it’s way down to the local dog catcher. And when they’re all tarred and feathered, we can move on to tarring and feathering RINOs who’ve done nothing for the GOP in decades.