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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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im glad biden is buying lunch for the VP and not JB,good lord,the federal deficit would go up a couple trillion more buying lunch for JB!!
He was never ever on the short list. Pritzker has lots of money and they have to stoke his ego. I’m quite certain he’s been promised a job should Harris win.
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Heaven help the country! 2 far left candidates
Hey Fox News and Newsmax:
8. Subversion of the judicial process by only allowing cases against the state to be heard in two Democratic friendly courts, Sangamon and Cook.
9. Influence in the choice of an out of state Supreme Court election along with Kwame Raoul.
10. bought and paid for Illinois Supreme Court justices
11. Unconstitutional bans on firearms, parts and magazines- but illegal aliens can own firearms without any FOID card
12. Buying up land in will county and putting up warehouses to get a piece of the intermodal $$$ – meanwhile you need Bradley to go down rt 53
So much to like about this guy! Not.