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"Progressives’ latest gimmick should be dismissed as grandstanding and an attempt to complicate or delegitimize immigration enforcement."
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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This is low hanging fruit for the Latino Lenins. They know full well this do nothing piece of dreck will only cement their favorable status and allow them to continue their agenda of Marxism.
I don’t remember Chicago’s Commie Caucus calling for mask bans when:
— masked BLM rioters, looters, and arsonists trashed the city TWICE in 2020
— masked Hamas creeps blocked traffic all over Chicago
— masked crimethugs carried out armed robberies, carjackings and drive-bys for the last 5 years