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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 new state flag should be a giant Get Out of Jail Free card from a Monopoly game
let the mfkng dindus run free
You mean crooks let back into the wild commit more crimes? Who’da thunk’it?
Those things sure never worked for me!
Nor that guy who goes by Frank Miller here. (One of the villains in High Noon.)