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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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I have no problem with legal immigrants. Why the left is pandering to illegals as well as violent criminals is really beyond comprehension
63% of Non-Citizen Households Access Welfare Programs
Compared to 35% of native households
https://cis.org/Report/63-NonCitizen-Households-Access-Welfare-Programs
I have no problems with immigrants, until, you know, I have to start paying for them. it’s not ‘Fair’ to take money from natives who need help to line the pockets of immigrants. We are doing them a favor letting them in here. They should not turn around and mooch off the system which they overwhelmingly do.
other than a syrian immigrant in Europe, there is no where else in the world an immigrant can just show and start mooching the system.
“JB Pritzker Signs Law to Protect Immigrant Renters” Wow. What an inaccurate and purposefully deceiving headline. A more accurate headline should read: “JB Pritzker Wastes Illinois Taxpayer Dollars, Virtue Signals and Signs Unconstitutional and Unenforcable Law Protecting ILLEGAL CRIMINAL Immigrants”. The once noble profession of Journalism has descended into a propaganda mouthpiece worthy of Joseph Goebbels.
American is a nation of immigrants and welcomes LEGAL immigrants with open arms. Illegal immigrants are criminals and should be deported. Period.
America is not a nation of immigrants. We are a native of 300,000,000 natives and 30 million (or a lot more) immigrants. We should severely curtail immigration back to 1920’s levels when the doors were essentially shut for decades until the salad bowl became a melting pot. We need that now too.
Respectfully disagree, though immigration has to be allowed rationally and according to law, with the borders strictly enforced.
Tens of millions of immigrants keep wages for the native working class low. They compete to buy the same starter and buy up homes, rent the same low income apartments, and attend the same schools. People complain ‘housing is so expensive in big cities’ while at the same time there are tens if not hundreds of thousands of illegal living in those same apartments – ignoring that immigration is the very cause of the low supply and high demand for said housing. Insane levels immigration – which is now at the highest levels proportionally in the *entire history of America*… Read more »
How is this not a First Amendment violation?
I am now being told by my state government that I cannot make a perfectly lawful, truthful statement to an actual arm of the federal government in order to patriotically enforce existing law?
F you, JB. Go ahead and sue me, and see how that works out.
You have to be a complete anti-American to vote Democrat.