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A proposed order, introduced today in the City Council by 22 members, calls for hiring a consultant to determine the feasibility of "municipalizing" ComEd in Chicago.
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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“Presumably, a “progressive rate structure” would mean that middle-class and wealthy Chicagoans would pay more for electricity than working-class households.”
This is literally crazy stuff here. Scary actually.