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"During the interview Thursday, Johnson laughed loudly when asked if he is a progressive. He said he wears the designation as 'a badge of honor' because his positions are 'rooted in Black liberation theology,' and that the nation’s progressive traditions helped shape Harris."
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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Someone should ask him if he misses Ken Griffin. You can’t tax a mega business once they’re gone peanut brain. What a simpleton.
“We do have to demand that corporations and billionaires pay their fair share,” (Conehead the Mayorbarian) said. “It’s the right thing to do.”
Thus the exodus of both. The rampant spending binges will haunt Chicago taxpayers for decades.
Potential Protests ??? That’s funny.
Perhaps at the DNC Convention the mandate from Biden-Harris to have state taxpayers fund full healthcare for illegal aliens can be discussed:
https://ago.mo.gov/attorney-general-bailey-files-suit-to-prohibit-obamacare-from-funding-illegal-immigrants/