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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 so depressing, with dem machine 100% in control of everything, is that the dullard chump taxpayer/voter only finds out about behind the scenes massive tax increase plans in works thru opion columns from a Jim Nolan or mr machine insider Miller on Capfax for those very very few that aren’t hooked on the cool aid. Looks like Civic Federation’s got the knee pads on as usual, pathetic. Thank you Wp, Nolan & Dey
Drive around any suburban Chicago neighbor and pay attention to the plethora of trans flags, Hate Has A Home Here and BLM yard signs. These virtue signalers Always Vote Blue No Matter. They vote every election, sometimes twice.
They’ll vote Democrat every election just so you can pay for medicaid abortions, trans’d 4 year olds and pay for illegal immigrants to destroy your locals schools and neighborhoods.
Moloch worshiping liberal white women are truly the most evil and destructive force in modern society today. Nothing else compares to them.
Saw a Lutheran church in Villa Park, hanging two extra color pride banners.
Sad.
I propose we launch a Heteronormative Pride Month- our flag is red white and blue
Many smaller protestant churches have gone woke. Years of declining membership and a older, liberal suburban women parishioners have turned 500 years of Protestantism into a farcical incubation of social justice nonsense. My older community has a number of decades or older neighborhood protestant churches in the middle of residential areas, and it seems that most of them have adopted the globohomo religion, with trans and pride flags prominently displayed next to the cross and alter. One local Methodist church several blocks from my home has a trans flag prominently displayed and some version of All are Welcome Here, except… Read more »
Be careful debtsor. It ain’t your dad’s Catholic church anymore — let alone Grandpa’s.
My beef is with how they get reimbursed for, embrace and facilitate illegal immigration. Not sure what do about it.
Those Catholic Charities are awful.
I second Old Joe on that. Be sure to look into Catholic Social Teaching before you leap. Most in the pews don’t know what the official Church position is- it’s pretty eye-opening.
I learned of it through many discussions with my ultra-lib ex-nun sister-in-law. Who, by the way, swears that none of her views are political, just in support of her Church. While she promotes links to MSNBC, WaPo, and MoveOn.org.
Needless to say, our discussions had to end to keep any semblance of peace in the family.
I walked away from the Catholic Church 10 years ago after I saw the movie Spotlight.
Orwell had that covered too:
“It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers- out of orthodoxy.”
How Much You Can Save Moving From NYC, SF to Miami: Study (businessinsider.com)
With cost of living increases and high tax rates in cities like New York City, Chicago and San Francisco, high income earners are looking to take advantage of more affordable areas of the country for the sake of stretching a salary significantly further. To determine how much you can save by moving to Miami, SmartAsset compared the cost of living and tax rates to those of NYC, Chicago and San Francisco for those earning $150,000 up to $650,000. High earners can save up to $200k per year by moving to Miami. Between cost of living differences and taxes, someone making $650,000… Read more »