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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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Please don’t, please, just sit in your giant office and blow spit bubbles…when you “work” the tax payers of Illinois Lose.
Round boy has never worked a day in his life unless one counts sweating as work.
Yes, 4 more years of this please…
Destroying the state of Illinois is not complete yet, re elect me and I will finish the job
He said he’s going to address the rising cause of living. He’s the reason why there’s a rising cost of living.
The only reason the state has had any positive economic movement under Emperor Flintstone is the Federal largess due to COVID. Now that that money is gone, things are returning to business as usual.
I have work to do. He sounds like the chaos and mayhem guy from the Allstate commercials
Having the trust fund baby insist he actually works, let alone knows what actual work looks like, is pure fiction.
There aren’t many, but there are still a few things in Illinois that JB the Hutt hasn’t completely wrecked yet.
That’s why he has work to do.
Pritzker get out of this state.
The single most financially destructive governor in possibly Illinois history wants and will likely get 4 more years to further bulldoze state finances and further burden the “working families” he says he needs to protect. Protect with unnecessarily high costs of living? More tax and fee increases? More pro criminal lax public safety? More lies? More hubris? More hypocrisy? Have to think he did his presidential polling and found Brandon Johnson level support so decided to make the safer bet by running for governor. Or, is he hedging his bets and will also run for president? My goodness, please just… Read more »
Didn’t do the work in 1st 2 terms. Why would he start now
“I have work to do” he claims, how much more can you destroy this state?
The arsonist in charge wants four more years to put fires out. The is beyond the pale.
Loved the pr from governor Guttman- makes the announcement surrounded by “ his people “ on the South Side and has a fluff piece extolling his virtues in a park in Nowheresville to appeal to the south of I-80 deplorables. I’m surprised he didn’t get nailed with an empty PBR bottle.
I would have paid a dollar to watch that happen.