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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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if TRUMP committed a misdeed, then what do you call your toilet fraud? and where is the repayment and prison for you by the by?????
““I’m working towards selecting the Democrat. We are going to defeat Donald Trump,” Pritzker said. “I’m in favor of whoever wins on the Democratic side. That’s who I’m going to be voting for.” Pritzker has also been a consistent critic of President Donald Trump, having called on the president to be impeached two years ago. The governor said he’s been keeping track of the impeachment hearings and believes Trump has committed “misdeeds.” “It is clear to me that significant evidence has been put forward that shows that President Trump has committed misdeeds, that he has committed wrongdoing, that impeachment is… Read more »
as people continue to escape the yoke of Illinois, land of leavin’
Jelly Belly should recognize corruption. He lives in Illinois. We exported the cancer called Obama to D.C. and look what that did to the FBI and Justice Dept between 2008 and 2016.
Democrat heads will roll in the months leading up to the election.