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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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Does JB realize 18 year olds can vote. He’s pissed off the class of 2020, 2021 and 2022 who can all vote. Guess what JB, you may have bought all the teacher’s votes but there’s more students than teachers.
I feel sorry for the children of ever single “parent” that commented below me. You people are trash.
You feel bad for children of parents that want freedom from dictators rather than children of parents that are content living under dictatorship.
Got it.
All do respect, pretty stupid post. Care to try again with something of substance? Or is name calling it?
Don’t feel sorry for my kids, they’re smart enough to know people like you are idiots.
Everyone always knew the IHSA was kind of a phony mostly political organization – this just reinforces that notion.
What a petty, authoritarian jerk. Really, what a complete prick. the billionaire thinks he can do whatever he wants. I hope somebody puts this fat pig in prison for a long, long time.
The fight will take sacrifice and it starts by giving Porky the finger.
JB taking out the frustrations of his youth on the athletes. What a tool.
Boy if Pritzker doesn’t get his way he is pouting like a little boy, now he is taking it out on the kids, remember jelly belly it’s about the kids not your fat EGO.
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