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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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The Takers want their freebies. I’ve got some ‘equity’ for them: How about they work and earn their owe money?
Heaven forbid the government fail to provide them with everything they need. Does this $500 per month count as reparations?
It’s not nearly enough by the reckoning of SJW’s. After all we owe every black person in America 3( or is it 4?) million dollars apiece.