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.
I wonder if “Home Rule” isn’t the problem here. Almost as if it makes Chicago a law unto itself … What becomes of redress if the City is judge, jury, and executioner?
Yet our neighbor’s states’ Supreme Court’s found that never ending emergencies were unconstitutional. Same laws, same emergency powers, and the courts found it illegal.
Ann Burke, you old hag, you going to do the right thing and vote against tyranny like our neighbor BLUE STATES, Michigan and Wisconsin?