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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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I’ve come around to the position that we should have some limits on gun ownership. But specifically, only restrict commies like antifa and illegal immigrants from owning guns. I won’t let my strong pro-2nd amendment ideology get in the way of the practical reality that my enemies are also arming themselves, not to oppose a tyrannical government, or for recreation, but with the stated intention of destroying me or to commit crime.
Bullshit issue in the first place.
As it is Illinois residents don’t have 2nd Amendment rights pritzger and his minions took them away
Governor Jelleybean is intent on destroying Illinois so he can build back better
Here’s how to fix this. Make it a felony to be unlawfully present in this country and that will prevent illegals from owning firearms. Just ask the FOID office.