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“There is a process in which the collection of the grocery tax is now being placed in the responsibility of municipalities, right?” the mayor said at a City Hall news conference. “So it was a function that the state of Illinois decided to relinquish, and leave it to the cities to collect the tax. So we’re not creating a grocery tax, we’re just creating a process by which we can collect it.”
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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When I fill up my car, I do it out of Illinois if possible but definitely out of Cook County. I’m sure I am not the only one who avoids paying Illinois as many consumption taxes as I can.
Can 3% approval be far away for Mayor Turd Reich?
“ We not creating a tax, we just keeping it going for the underserved communities even though most municipalities in the US don’t have one.” explained Homie to the best of his abilities.
Nope, we really don’t want to go into farming and be responsible for a cow; we just want the milk.