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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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Pritzker- always for the criminals.
How is HE going to police the criminals and gangbangers with these new laws ??? All talk . It’s a publicity stunt.
FOIDs are unconstitutional and should be eliminated.
Anyone thinks that think most gang members have FOIDs needs to stop drinking the kool-aid.
great-just what is needed in IL, more guns on the street,
“Chicago weekend shootings leave 1 dead, 16 wounded, according to police – CBS2 (Chicago)”
“Mass shooting of five teens erupts in West Garfield Park – Chicago Sun-Times”
“Mt. Vernon mass shooting leaves 2 dead, 5 wounded – CBS2 (Chicago)”
FBI classifies mass shouting as 4 or more killed . Woke media uses that phrase incorrectly. Only need 4 people shot and they call it a mass shooting for headlines