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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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Where the heck is the money coming from for these new six-figure jobs? Chicago has more debt than most states, right? Oh, I forgot … infinitely deep taxpayer pockets.
Who heads up Chicago’s Citizens’ Rights Commission?
Or the Illinois Taxpayers’ Rights Committee?
Oh? They don’t exist? Why not?