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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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That’s just a fine how do you do. A couple of hundred thousand Illinois residents who purchased banned firearms with the states approval, in possession of a FOID card and passing a state background check and a federal background check will now become felons. Making criminals out of innocent citizens while the real violent criminals are walking the streets because of the Cook County revolving door justice system. Unfortunately if a White male gets arrested and charged under the new gun ban Kim Foxx will seek an immediate death penalty.
The good news, Colour Sergeant, is that I suspect that your Martini-Henry rifle with short chamber Boxer Henry point 45 caliber and bayonet is not included on the unconstitutional banned firearms list. So you will still be able to protect your property but unfortunately it will be difficult to concealed carry.
And a bayonet with some guts behind it