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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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He’d take it to pay teachers. He’s a male whore
Johnson is pro illegals and pro criminal. Criminals need to be arrested, properly charged and put in jail. Without consequences for criminal behavior, crime will never decrease. Hes “adjusted” the crime numbers. The schools need to actually teach students so that they have a future, other than committing crime. But Brandon is a CTU puppet, so he won’t do that.