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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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There is massive non-compliance with this registry. What delusional world is he living in?
He’s doesn’t want you to comply. Non-compliance is the point. JB won. He just turned almost all of his political opponents’ voters, the MAGA bible thumping, beer drinking, assault rifle owning deplorables, into criminals over night. Think about that for a second. You’ve done nothing wrong by owning a legally purchased gun. He decides that gun is now illegal and demands millions of residents register them. Then when no one registers them, he turned every one of you into criminals. Now, he has the full power of the state police to make examples out of any MAGA conservative he wants.… Read more »
Considering more than 90% of Illinois sheriffs have refused to enforce, expect the same from State police. They are not going to risk their career on the oath of office violation and lawsuits.
https://hudsonvalleyone.com/2016/07/07/massive-noncompliance-with-safe-act/
This is hopium and copium. JB Pritzker has staked out his entire political career on being the most progressive governor in the country and he’s shown a willingness to take issues farther than nearly every other governor: covid masks for kids, covid shut downs for too long, gun registries, the only state with NO BAIL laws, he’s spent the most money on a campaign of any governor in the history of america. This dude goes big, literally, or he doesn’t go at all. He’s not just going to sit back and let the deplorables defy his law. He’s going to… Read more »