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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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They adopt the term ‘Black Caucus,’ then cry racism when the term is used to protest their law writing?
The law wasn’t written by the ‘White Caucus,’ Oh, wait a minute, there is no ‘White Caucus’ because that would be racist, right?
Oh, the hypocrisy!!
The black caucus did what they did to advance their interests. They have an interest in equity so they convinced a supermajority legislature so pass a bill that benefits the black caucus’s voters. That’s what democracy is. Their constituency complained they were getting locked up too much for crimes and they changed the laws to release them from jail. Sure, some, and probably a lot, of these criminals will go on to commit more crimes, and when others see the leniency the system provides, it will encourage new criminals to commit more crimes. But that’s the price THEY are willing… Read more »
Complimenting the Black Caucus is not political racism.
Criticizing the Black Caucus is political racism.
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