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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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Folks, the problem is not that there are too many POC gang bangers in jail. The problem is there are too few. There, I fixed it.
Does calling someone a racist even work anymore?
“State Rep. Justin Slaughter, D-Chicago, a driving force behind the SAFE-T Act, has accused Republicans opposed to measures of a “bad stench of racism.””
So if you’re a bail bondsman I guess you’ll be out of a job soon.
a “harmful system that disproportionately targets Black and Brown Illinoisans and replaces it with one that is data and safety-driven.”
How about it proportionally and appropriately puts criminals – no matter their skin color – where they need to be. Data and safety driven my a double s.
This needs to be issue number one for all GOP candidates in Illinois — how Illinois will become New York — where the NY no cash bail law makes it legal to stab a Congressman
https://freebeacon.com/latest-news/why-new-york-police-released-the-man-who-tried-to-stab-jewish-republican/