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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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What a load of absolute crap! “With fewer healthy people contributing to the economy, The Commonwealth Fund estimates that Illinois could lose up to $2.5 billion in gross domestic product and $214 million in taxes.”
If they are healthy people, they should be working and contributing to the economy , not being a drain on an already overtaxed system. How will removing benefits from healthy people be a negative? Get your ass a job and stop sucking on the taxpayers!
Toni Taxwinkle once again throws shade on Any Medicaid reforms, preferring to let it run towards insolvency or raise Taxes “on the rich” to compensate for the shortcomings. Instead, look at how the Bill that just Passed in the House Protects Medicare benefits and keeps the system solvent. It protects Medicaid for Americans by kicking 1.4 million illegals off the benefits. This bill eliminates waste, fraud, and abuse by ending benefits for at least 1.4 Million illegal immigrants who are gaming the system. It requires able-bodied Americans to work if they receive benefits. With 4.8 million able-bodied adults choosing not to work, The Bill that recently passed the… Read more »
She is worried about the impact it will have on their new constituency, the illegals.