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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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Interesting article. After seeing all the police officers going to jail for just doing their job, who would want to take that risk? I sure wouldn’t and apparently few others do either. A bad interaction with a habitually violent criminal – like that taser case in MN recently – means the cop goes to jail and the criminal gets sainthood. Cops are now enforcing vaccine mandates and mask compliance on the general population and this alienates the few friends copy have left. That’s not good for a civil society with few good police officers, lots of crime and a lot… Read more »
Reducing crime has some similarities to reducing CO2 emissions. Both are theoretically possible, but neither is probable nor practicable. What has been described is a feedback loop of understandable lax enforcement catalyzed by prosecutorial indifference inevitably resulting in the loss of restraint by those whom civilization has not tamed. Together, now, as we all Slouch Towards Gomorrah.
Soon it will be only the bad guys applying to the police academy. Criminals with badges, brought to you in the name of “equity”.