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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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They are going to surround the wrong concealed carry person and then Chicago will burn as the feral predators get killed.
Foxx will prosecute the CCL holder. It’s clear in every Blue jurisdiction in the country that defending yourself will get you prosecuted.
She can try but won’t be successful.
Mob style robberies, a mainstay of visiting Chicago. The finest Chicago Values. You’re not just going to be robbed, you’ll have an entire mob descend on you in broad daylight on the Mag Mile. Toni Preckwinkle is using Castro tactics of opening the doors at prisons and asylums. She opens the jail and the little darlings create mayhem to make Lori look bad. War by proxy with the victims simply collateral damage but given monuments of balloons and cognac bottles. Maybe some scratch offs too.