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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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They, the Illinois courts and politicians ignored recent US Supreme Court decisions by passing PICA and upheld by the Illinois courts and the democrat controlled federal 7th circuit. Would a Supreme Court decision or order mean anything to this crowd anyway? As usual the democrats are attacking citizens who have never committed a crime while allowing real, violent, repeat offenders to run amok.
What should also be noted in this article is the compliance rate, 0.20%, two tenths of a percent. Firearm owners are thumbing their noses at Pritzger I wonder what FatBoy thinks about that.
“I wonder what FatBoy thinks about that” He’s salivating like a dog at the prospect of watching hundreds, if not thousands, of deplorables in prison. He can’t wait! He can’t wait to use his power to punish you, deplorable. This law was never intended to get guns off the street. They know that few will register their guns. They know their inner-city voters will never be prosecuted under this new law. This law exists to turn you, the deplorable, into a criminal. As for ACB (amy coney barrett), this supreme court appeal is quite the hail mary pass, but it… Read more »