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.
Bravo to the Judge for a reasoned and rational ruling.
This is the go-to move for leftist ambulance chasers — just add a phony claim of racism to any bogus claim, and hope you get a judge to buy it.