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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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Absolutely sickening that there’s ZERO reporting on SB328 in Crains, Trib, ST/WBEZ, as SB328 is one of, or the biggest story of budget session. Talk about doubling down, with all of Illinois anti-business legislation and taxation, if JB doesn’t veto watch the business hit the exits–WOW!!!….fantastic writing by Bilyk
Illinois lawmakers are a legalized mafia. They have their hands in everything