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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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Need to address illegal guns that criminals and gangs have
Target hit, but IL legislators have neither the will to protect law abiding citizens or brains to implement a plan. That path is also followed by our Federal and State legislators.
We are all pawns in a chess game to these politicians, we need to keep turning the tide on them.
As if there aren’t enough gun laws in Illinois already. A majority of them have absolutely no impact on crime as they are totally an effort to disarm law abiding gun owners who have never committed a crime and never will. Just look at the PICA act that has temporarily outlawed a laundry list of firearms. This act will have zero impact on violent crime yet will make innocent, law abiding gun owners criminals if they have failed to register certain firearms with the state police. Meanwhile gun crimes under the former Cook County states attorney Foxx were ignored, dismissed… Read more »
Well stated!! The bleeding heart liberals think these unconstitutional laws will protect them from the thugs, who don’t follow laws
The Supreme Court needs to come in with a double barrel middle finger to these commy pricks
They know that unconstitutional gun laws don’t protect ordinary citizens. The goal of the law is to punish and imprison you, deplorable, for being a conservative. The original bill, I’m not making this up, had no grandfather period for people who legally purchased these guns to dispose of them. Own the gun legally on 12/31, and then it would be a crime the next day. A reporter asked the bill’s sponsor, that bald ugly dude out of Deerfield, “you know that if your bill was to pass, it makes felons out of millions of otherwise law aiding citizens overnight” and… Read more »
Straight out of the nazi playbook surrender your rights and show me your papers not this conservative, and by the way I hate them as much as they hate me