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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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We’ll see how well Godlessness sells.
Why are companies dumping Chicago: (1) The Most Business Hostile Laws/Regulations In America; (2) The Most Burdensome Tax Structures/Tax Rates In The U.S.; (3) A Failing Educational System At All Levels; (4) The Worst Fiscal Basket Case Among All 50 States; (5) Out Of Control Crime/Soft On Crime Democrats That Have Made Law And Order Impossible; (6) Crooked And Corrupt Unions That Have A Stranglehold On Government; (7) The Worst Corruption Of Any State/One Party Misrule; (8) A Democrat State Energy Suicide Pact That Will Give Illinois 3rd World Power Blackouts; And Last But Not Least — (9) A Conga… Read more »
Chicago wants businesses to move so their workers can have cheap abortions instead of having to pay for expensive maternity leave? Diabolical!
Sprinkling powdered sugar on a turd! Chicago Values!
With Sprinkles!
When we try to make a deal at work it’s the bottom line that matters, not what a great company we are (no Chicago is not great). Instead of a letter maybe they should reach out and ask these companies what they’re looking for from the city. My guess is these companies will all come back with the same two or three issues. They won’t do anything to address it, instead they’ll keep gaslighting them and watch the exodus continue.
The IL and Chicago democratic party Politburo has ***no*** intention of seriously listening – let alone *changing*. Illinois and Chicago “leadership” is bloated and corrupt, resembling the last tottering communist regimes of East Germany, Romania, Czechoslovakia, Poland, or the old USSR of the 1980’s. Those regimes were eventually swept away, but here we cannot hope for that. Illinois has SO much in common with the rotten and declining old Brezhnev regime of the USSR… JB is a dead ringer in fact for old decrepit Leonid Brezhnev…
We knew this when they started renaming the street signs, the buildings, the highway interchanges…this is what dystopian commie hellholes do, memorialize failed party leaders. This what Chicago does too. One day when this city is taken back the first order of business should be take these democrat’s names off OUR infrastructure.
A city that values late-term abortion, gambling, drugs, soft on crime and a foul-mouthed mayor. Chicago is a national embarrassment.
So ignore all the negatives and c**p going on in Chicago and IL and come to IL because it supports unlimited abortion. What a sales pitch.
Be sure to mention the tremendous expansion of gambling, the pot shop on every corner and gun toting gangbangers shooting up the expressways in case the late term abortions don’t hook them.
Wow! Embarrassing.
CRINGE with all capital letters. The communist is too ideological to even understand why this is so CRINGE.
With SJW logic like that, the city should also point out that due to the horrible schools and violence against children, there’s really no point to having a kid in Chicago anyway.