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If this bill passes, say goodbye to local control over all Illinois parks and expect to see open drug and alcohol use, needles, no sanitation and fire hazards, but no ordinary park users.
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.
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Eventually the Bully ( Pritzker) gets punched in the mouth and learns his lesson and shuts up.
Of course! Spend even more money on an unconstitutional issue that’s already been before SCOTUS. Why not? Illinois is dripping with extra cash to throw away. Marxist moron!
Of course he will. In his world, slaves should not own weapons, unless they are drugged up felons owning firearms banned in the US for decades and they use them to kill policemen. Those types of weapons are OK.