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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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Great use of the taxpayers money in another Virtue Signalling failure.
It’s the gun’s fault, not the shooter! We should all know that by now!
Why not sue Stellantis for all those high performance cars in street shows? Who really needs a 707 horsepower Dodge Charger or Challenger? Think of the deep pockets they can go after. It would make Glock look like a minnow!
Chicago just like New York targeted prosecution for selling a legal product.
I hope they can win a large lawsuit against the city, maybe yet another time Chicago will have to write a large check for targeting firearm related legal and constitutional practices.
Switches are really some of the most dangerous and stupid stuff I’ve seen. The people who carry guns with switches tend to have the worst aim and the switches make their poor aim exponentially worse. The solution is to go after the people who carry switches and imprison them for long periods of time, so that word gets out, that carrying a gun with a switch means your life is over forever. They’ll eventually get the lesson, after several thousand people get life sentences.
It’s Cook County, it’s Illinois so long prison sentences for real criminals is a fairy tale. The democrats love criminals and would rather put an 80yr old abortion protester in prison.
Automatic weapons are illegal and criminals caught with them should be prosecuted.
Good idea but remember it’s Cook County where criminals are beloved voters for democrats
Unfortunately it’s a Democrat criminal support city.
Hope the gangs all bring them out for the DNC.
The only switch allowed for punks that kill
Someone with these weapons is the switch on old sparky. Switch on for 30 to45 seconds and it’s over, word will spread that maybe this is not the way to die for these punks