Audio: Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon says Chicago pension buyout plan mostly shifts debt rather than eliminating it, property tax surge doubles inflation over three decades – Chicago’s Morning Answer
April 3, 2026
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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.
Illinois lost another 54,000 tax filers and dependents, net, according to the IRS. Since 2000, fleeing taxpayers have taken $94 billion of annual adjusted gross income with them.
“our street corners are not for ICE agents… they’re for our drug dealers”
The parks would be safer if federal officials were there. Then maybe people could actually read a book instead of being caught in crossfire.
So have Johnson and Pritzker been assigned to reconnoiter how closely they can approach the “I” line without being caught? They seem like the kind of guys you would send to test the waters lol.
“Johnson said Chicago police will not be called if ICE agents ignore the signage prohibiting them from using spaces. Instead, he said the Department of Law will handle any violations by taking the feds to court”
So it does not appear that Johnson is serious about this.
Neo-confederate mayor getting back to the slavery roots of his party.
Only the color of the plantation owner has changed.
The color of the overseer never changed for Democrats plantation politics.
here is our mayor today claiming that the Republicans are trying to start another Civil War.
someone needs to tell him that the DEMOCRATS STARTED the first Civil War.
This is some classic projection :
https://twitter.com/ThePatriotOasis/status/1975216686598062173?ref_src=twsrc^tfw|twcamp^tweetembed|twterm^1975216686598062173|twgr^8c0f5147c6e9f03990ae9e708948085868ac3bda|twcon^s1_c10&ref_url=https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/10/marxist-chicago-mayor-brandon-johnson-announces-executive-order/
The Republicans started the War Between the States, by prohibiting peaceful secession.