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.
Do you believe a BLM group would have been sent packing?
Sadly, I don’t.
When an institution of Higher learning will not allow the free exchange of speech and ideas, it might be time to reconsider attending that institution.
And defunding them.