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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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You would think that this is common sense – residents can’t come here to mooch the system. But Democrats hate Trump so much, so much, they throw all rational thought out the window, and focus only on the aspect that a future citizen on food stamps today has a 99.9% chance of voting democrat in the future. So they screw the rest of us paying to pay for these mooches, for the sake of a handful of (D) votes, in the future. This is just so frustrating to even be involved in battles like these. Why are we even wasting… Read more »
And if you disagree, you’re labeled a white supremacist. I cannot think of another time in my life when objectivity and civility had been as low as it is today.
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