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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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We are constantly told immigrants commit crimes at lower rates than the native born population. This is probably true as far as it goes. But how many of the native born criminals are themselves children of illegals? And what would we see if total immigrant crime was disaggregated by country of origin? Some large immigrant groups, notably Indians and Chinese, have very low rates of crime. Including them in total immigrants may mask a very real problem with some other groups.
Chuy Garcia, waste of space legislator and father of a gang member, should go meet the woman this guy assaulted and stole from and tell her to lighten up, most migrants don’t commit crimes.
Future democratic voters.
Democrats protecting criminals again.