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If this bill passes, say goodbye to local control over all Illinois parks and expect to see open drug and alcohol use, needles, no sanitation and fire hazards, but no ordinary park users.
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.
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The problem with these types of articles is that they all have the assumption that Illinois needs a middle class and that it will be the middle class that bears the majority of the tax burden. This is a faulty assumption. Illinois politicians don’t want a middle class. Middle class citizens are deplorables who vote Republican and there is no place for them in Illinois. Illinois is a one party state of really really wealthy progressives who don’t mind paying a little more tax believing that they are paying for the unwashed masses of poor people who service their lifestyle,… Read more »