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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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In my book that’s a failing grade- no surprise there.
I was delayed in traffic earlier this week as a road they paved just last summer was being scraped up and redone. Now that’s progress!
The union way in Illinois use inferior materials so you can come back in a year or so and redo it.
Three years after doubling the gas tax and this is the measly progress we’ve made?