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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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The real headline should read: Law abiding, tax paying, middle class citizens in Midwest lose across the board. CME, McDonalds, Walgreens and Caterpillar announce exits.
Republicans need to get their position on abortion straight? What exactly are “Republicans” supposed to do, sell out on their moral compass? If sticking to one’s beliefs means the country going to HIAHB, then so be it! I mean, we’re talking about destroying a fetus that’s about to come down the birth canal, in Illinois at least. So bizarre it beggars belief.
Correct. It’s not about abortion. It’s that our side doesn’t show up to the polls in off-year elections. It’s a nationwide problem. Pundits showed there wasn’t even high D turnout. It was a drop off in R turnout, which is pretty typical of Republicans, who don’t live, eat and breath politics like progressive do.
I agree with what you say I just wish the right would stop using the language as dictated by the left.
“Progressive”. What is progressive about driving us back to the pagan stone ages?
A bad republican candidate who has now helped get 2 democratic justices to the Wisconsin supreme court and an abortion policy that is not in line with where many of the voters are, apparently is not a good strategy to get republicans elected in key races.