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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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Shake her family-tree and I suspect a couple of gangbangers surface.
Upon Sanchez’s re-election, hopefully there will be a strong opposition campaign with workers knocking on doors to exposing this woman’s actions and telling the law abiding taxpayers, how she works against them. However, with this exposure, she may bow out and pass the thuggery onto a new candidate who then can carry on for the criminals.
Rossana’s 2019 campaign was primarily funded by just two corporations: Illinois Federation of Teachers (via CTU and the Cook County Teachers Union that represents community colleges) and SEIU Healthcare, along with United Working Families, which is merely a political action committee funded by CTU and SEIU Healthcare used as a means to circumvent political contribution limits. Imagine the outrage from the DSA folks if Walgreens and BCBS were the only financial backers of a candidate.
Can you get a tax deduction for protection money?
Democrats love criminals and terrorists!