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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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Ugh, these age-old sayings never get outdated. It’s not good to bite the hand that feeds you.
“Argentina gets $20 billion and the South Side gets nothing,” Johnson said after the Department of Transportation’s suspension of Red Line Expansion funding on Friday. “What happened to America First?” – Untrue. Johnson gave the southside poor Black neighborhoods illegals, housed, fed, and given healthcare the legal residents of those neighborhoods aren’t getting.