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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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Illinois Supreme Court is a joke. Bought and paid for by Pritzger. Nobody should expect a decision based on the law or the Constitution.
Let me guess that’s probably not your thinking when it comes to Trump and all his “my judges” on the federal Supreme Court. Supreme Court justices there all act without preferential treatment in his behalf, right? None of the have been “bought and paid for,” after all.
The Democrats on the Supreme Court are low IQ morons. Just listen to Sotomayer speak – she sounds like she watched MSNBC for breakfast. Jackson is a complete idiot – has spoken MORE than any other justice on the bench. She just gets up there and starts talking, and every time she opens her mouth, you can hear audible groans, because she is such an idiot. She screws up basic points of law that first year law students would know. And both of them *always* side with Democrats. It’s never like “Oh how will Jackson vote?” because we already know… Read more »
Yeah, but Jackson is excellent on Broadway.
It absolutely astounds me that you have such bravado to think you have the right background and right opinion on the vast majority of postings here. Most people seem to reserve their comments to their own wheelhouse of knowledge, but decidedly that’s not you. You spew forth with gusto on every political topic imaginable, it seems to me. Your ego knows no bounds!