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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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Nothing to ponder Springfield, just enforce the laws on the books now quit all this show boating like your doing or gonna do something.
This is an emotional response to a tragedy.
With this reasoning all mini-vans should be banned because one was used as a weapon in Waukesha, WI.
Current laws aren’t being enforced, so let’s pass a few more that will further erode the Bill of Rights.
Bah!
This woman is a shill. She speaks for the few who are clueless and has no idea what this would mean for the Country and the way it would pave to Tyranny. She is either stupid, being paid for her grandstanding or a Marxist. Her arrogance knows no bounds.