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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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Primarily because the leftists have all decided they couldn’t take the city any longer and decided it was past time to move on to destroy surrounding counties. Just look at the numbers.
And Illinois still went democrat like it’s there job. What part of Illinois is hopeless don’t you get?
That people have begun to reject that which is progressivism makes me so very hopeful for this country.
Is or will the tide turn in Illinois sooner than later, 2030 maybe.
All the civilized areas voted for Trump.
At first glance, it appears that if the people that voted for RFK jr. ( after he implored them not to ) had voted for Trump, he would’ve won Will County.
looks like donnie’s polling better than mayor 14%