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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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Go Pound Sand.
Crains is still around? Do they still employ that leftist troll Greg something or other with the Wham earing? What a laugh that rag was, big government corporatism propaganda disguised as “business” news.
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Medical advice from Crain’s? Who’d a thunk it?
Crain’s should worry about all those business vacating the Mug Mile because of those organized looters ignoring their civic duty to act as human beings.
“We must start framing vaccinations not as a personal choice, but as a civic duty.”
GO F YOURSELF
Yea, I’m taking medical advice from Crains! Crains hasn’t been correct on anything since the mid 80’s! It was by accident too!
Take your It’s our civic duty to get a covid shot and shove it.
Is that a clear enough statement?