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.
Why do unions have standing with respect to members’ voting rights for non-union elections? Can they file tax appeals for members’ homes? Do the members wish to permit this expansion of union representation?
The AFL-CIO and the Illinois Federation of Teachers assert that “many of their members do not have a permanent address or spend long periods of time away from home,” so they don’t read their mail and might get kicked off the voter rolls.
Does any intelligent person believe that?
Sounds like the fix is in. Shame on U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis!