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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 Climate Religion is the only one that forces tithing by the taxpayers.
If only the temperatures would follow even one of the Climate Clerics’ predictions. Their accuracy rate for the past 40 years? 0%
Separation of the Climate Church and State. Now.
Vermont and New York’s “Climate Change” laws are illegal and unenforceable. How do measure the amount of farcical non existent ‘climate change’ caused by these specific companies? How do you link these companies to this catastrophic flooding or any other specific event? Perhaps this climate change event was caused by coal burning in the 1700’s? Or by a campfire 10,000 years ago? Or by John Kerry flying in his private jet? Certainly, since the Democrats AKA Communists only know how to steal money and to virtue signal, Illinois will waste more taxpayer money to jump into the clown car of… Read more »
Great. More reasons for companies to leave and not come to IL.