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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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This administration has zero interest governing in accordance to best interest of taxpayers. And like Biden, hopes to buy new votes from recently-arrived migrants hosted by massive expenditures of City of Chicago tax dollars. Biden does “student loan forgiveness”; Johnson does “guaranteed income, housing, health-care, food, transportation and petty cash” for new migrants.
No no no. Get it. Or go back to cps and learn English