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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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Legal taxpayers do not want to fund illegal college students. Fund legal IL students only. Pritzker is pro illegals over US citizens. He rust wants to import voters. Goes along with hid gerrymandering. Also, we need to block “Get Covered IL”.. That is just another way for taxpayers to pay for health insurance for illegals. JB can’t run the state, why does he think that IL can run health insurance?
Thank you Rep. Deering!
Its about time a state rep looked out for its constituents in this state.
If he were looking out for his constituents, he would not offer any financial assistance to those here illegally.
Trump lawsuit incoming….
Only it doesn’t offer preferential treatment. It puts illegals on the same footing and does not offer them anything more than any other citizen with the same financial/academic background. I completely disagree with spending money on illegals but it’s not illegal. No, Trump will not be filing a lawsuit.
I thought that out of state US citizens are often charged more than instate illegal students if they want to attend college here, but maybe I’m wrong?
Yes out of state US citizens pay out of state tuition just like out of state illegals pay out of state tuition. Hence my comment, “does not offer them anything more than any other citizen with the same financial/academic background. Every state university across the country has their own way of deciding who is in state and who is out of state. If Illinois declares someone “in-state” because they have lived here x amount of time or graduated from an Illinois High school then they are in-state. Again, it’s not right but also not illegal. Not everything we disagree with… Read more »