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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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What’s not being reported is that 99% of those shootings and murders involved POC. HB 5855 will turn every law abiding, gun owning citizen into a violent felon, many of them White when blacks and hispanics are the problem.
You got it all backwards. POC are NOT the problem – they are loyal Democrat voters.
You, the law abiding citizen, are the problem, because you are not a Democrat voter.
This bill isn’t about solving gun crime problems.
The bill is about solving the YOU problem. If they can’t force you to leave the state, then they’ll put in you in a camp instead, that camp being state prison camp.
The cold weather slowed up all the Gun Fun. Not to worry the weather is getting warmer and the killings and shootings will soon be back to normal. The weather stops more crime than the Chitty of Chicago Cops do.