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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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Are these the same tax dollars Pritzker drives down Route 66 and throws out the window?
Well, Hello again “-1” times 2. See your sucking up to the big man as usual.
Tax dollars are precious to governor Trotsky. He’s already spent billions of them without getting them first.
Oh, now we’re the steward of tax dollars? JB, you can drain a thousand tubes of lipstick on you and your record, but even your entourage know you’re full of hot air…
Even though the likelihood of Illinois ever allowing adults back in the room in Springfield is low, JB keeps spouting this nonsense that can be used for soundbites if he ever tries to seek another public office.
you said that to nicely
We need to be careful how we use public dollars, such a double Standard this individual takes, never hesitates to throw money at all the illegals coming in to make him look like a white knight on his high horse, abortions , weed and gambling , political climate change, such a successful leader I think not just a appeasement person with nothing better to do with his so dismal life.
Let the Suxs move to Nashville.
New name – Nashville Banjos!!
But but there is unlimited money for the jumpers and tons of money for abortions and transgender reassignment surgeries. No money for property tax relief.