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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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Another backdoor tax once again…
Climate and Equitable Jobs Act, a “green energy” policy that the public did not vote for, nor can they afford.
NOAA just released a report that there is no global warming or climate change and hasnt been any for 8 yrs. Believe the science!
YOU are the carbon they climate change nutters want to reduce.
This was the objective of the CEJA – raise energy costs on IL citizens, in particular those downstate. Blame Pritzker, not Ameren.
Just one more reason to flee.
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