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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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BJ is too stupid to see that his sanctuary shit show will sink his socialist steamboat
Brandon brings absolutely zero skills to the table. He’s completely incompetent. The only thing he knows how to do is speak woke. Watch the city burn.
Brandon Johnson is just too obtuse to realize that illegal immigration will destroy Chicago too. I know no one who voted to spend over 300 million dollars a year coddling people who should not even be here.