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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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This is an attack on independent farmers so they can tell them what to charge and what to grow. Say NO and get these clowns out of office.
Only a Democrat would call a $740 billion inflation reduction.
Traitorous Durbin never misses an opportunity to try and expand dependency on the federal teat.
Climate Change is a HOAX being used to manipulate the economy, CONTROL our ENEGRY and CONTROL our FOOD. This is all about CONTROL and the Destruction of people’s God Given rights.
Is there a property tax inflation reduction anywhere in this legislation?
Durbin: “This isn’t a fight between environmentalists and farmers. We are all in this together…..”
Real Durbin: “If you dumb farmers don’t do exactly as we say, we will crush you and put you out of business. We will always favor the commie environmentalists over you. Get in line, or else!”
Durban can threaten them with revoking that real estate tax break they were granted to not having to pay taxes based upon the market value of their land and as a self employed bachelor following the logic used for farmers I shouldn’t have to pay taxes on the FMV of my land either