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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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Gates = Typical Dem union GRIFTER!!
Gates makes about $270,000.00 a year from the teachers union…and she can’t figure out how to pay her/him/its bills because she/him/it learned math from Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson when he/she/it was teaching math at Chicago’s public schools.
The jokes write themselves here, but in the end she is a prominent union official who actively and strongly advocates for more government money to be spent on her union and on her whims. And she can’t even bother to pay her own fair share. When the city has no money to pay her demands, it’s partly due to people like her who aren’t responsible and expect other people to pay her bills. Disgraceful for a person representing Illinois teachers.
This is part and parcel of Mayor Brandon Johnson’s unofficial policy to give black and brown residents free city services while taxing everyone else to pay for it. He of course can’t officially implement this policy through executive order but he can do it though unofficial policies of not collecting debts by zip code. Which is how some communities rack up tens of millions of dollars in debt owed to the city with zero debt collection efforts taken to collect it.
Why is it so hard to shut off the water supply and skip garbage pickup day? Throw in a boot for the car, and a drivers license suspension as well. Just some ideas.
Shutting off the water to many of the city’s older properties means scheduling, then deploying, half a dozen unionized city employees to dig up the street or parkway to locate a 100 year old ‘buffalo box’ as it’s called, and then trying to manually shut off the water, which sometimes doesn’t even work. Then they have to cover it back up, and then dig it back up again several days later when the customer pays the outstanding balance to have it turned back on. Then they need to pay another unionized city crew to come back out cover the buffalo… Read more »
Send her to a collection agency. Boot her car too.
Rules for thee except for me!!
This is all for the children!!
Bills-racist
Speed limit signs- racist
No parking violations- racist
Y’all picking on a woman of color-racist
Like most government people, take but do not give.
This is wonderful how she shoves in the face of the democrats in her union. They truly love it.