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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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Someone should have asked the Judge exactly what is an “assault weapon”.
Naperville businesses will want their guns back when the next round of Black Lives Matter Riots, Looting, and Arson starts
https://patch.com/illinois/naperville/downtown-naperville-stores-damaged-looters
Hopefully this gets appealed quickly and this propagandizing Judge who is ruling on politics and her own beliefs rather than the law will get slapped down by the appeals court.
Perhaps U.S. District Judge Virginia Kendall should check statistics about the number of long guns involved in shootings.
Just a teaser … most shootings/assaults are perpetrated with handguns, not so-called ‘assault weapons.’
“their laws protect public safety by removing particularly dangerous weapons from circulation”
No – they remove constitutional rights of law abiding citizens. Another win for the criminals.