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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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I was required to use a Sharpie in Chicago. There was Sharpie ink all over everything in the booth and on the privacy folder my ballot arrived in. Someone is going to benefit somehow from this and it’s going to be a big issue going forward. What a mess!
I’m sure Putin himself is in the Kremlin basement screaming at his minions to stop worrying about Ukraine, Crimea, China, Europe, Iran, Syria, NATO, COVID, etc and focus on what’s important: hacking the Champaign county computers