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If this bill passes, say goodbye to local control over all Illinois parks and expect to see open drug and alcohol use, needles, no sanitation and fire hazards, but no ordinary park users.
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.
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This is an experiment of Stupidity.
Imagine being a ‘journalist’ so out of touch, and so stupid, that you think it’s a good idea to use crime ridden hellhole Washington DC as the very first example of why bail reform works! Last year’s crime rate was at a 15 year high!
The criminals will run wild, like they are doing now but just add more fuel to the fire. Cops will do nothing about it, just like they are doing now. Slowing but surely the Chitty of Chicago will become a ghost town for honest hard-working taxpayers and the criminals will own it. This is the KISS OF DEATH for Chi Town.