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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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Poor dopes. You thought because it was promised and money set aside for it, it would happen. That money was never intended to go for anything other than sweetheart contracts and kickbacks. Wawawa, you have been robbed again, but never mind. Isn’t it kind of nice to know that you are being robbed the same way your parents and grandparents were robbed were robbed in Chicago for decades.