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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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When it affects “THEM “it becomes a problem
And so it has always been! Now if we can get a couple of politicians carjacked, home invaded and so forth, who know what laws might be passed?
Perhaps we can build the squatters tax funded housing with a special balcony area to burn whatever they want to.
The new law sounds like what should have already been in place. Why would squatters have any rights to a property?