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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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Insane that the NYT continues to report vaccination rates given that vaccination doesn’t stop the transmission or spread of coronavirus. It makes zero sense to force kids to get vaccinated against a disease that barely affects them anyways; and then they can show up to school barely symptomatic and spread the disease to every other vaccinated person. Democrat logic!
No wonder Supreme Court justices are so misinformed. They’re reading the NYT.
Vote all democrats out in2022! They are destoying this country!!!
It is hard to vote out the Democrats when they are gerrymandered into place. At least 60% or more holding office today or running for office will run unopposed due to political maps/boundaries. How do you vote someone out that has no opposition or even a space to have a write in candidate. Even if someone steps down or dies in office a replacement is put is by the “Party”