-- Connecting the dots between our economy, government and business --
State Sen. Win Stoller said placing a mandate on insurance companies could drive up prices. The law allows insurance companies to cancel a policy if the individual dog is deemed dangerous or vicious under the state’s Animal Control Act.
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.
SIGN UP HERE FOR OUR FREE WIREPOINTS DAILY NEWSLETTER
Hmm, Illinois has gone to the dogs….
Sen. Linda Holmes is an actual harmful stereotype, a progressive middle-aged women with the most stupidest and ill-informed views in the entire world. Unfortunately, she’s in charge now, and the cost of your homeowners insurance will increase to pay for homeowners who keep pitbulls that main little children. Because women like Linda are members of a religious death cult that sacrifices children in every manner possible: abortion, masking, childhood genital mutilation, and now, sacrificing innocent children to the jaws of dangerous pitbulls.