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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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Can you tell the race of the driver of the vehicle in front of you? Not likely.
Yet, somehow this ‘study’ states that cops have this extraordinary vision and go out of their way to stop more POCs.
Absurd.
Yet Another Clueless, Faked-Data, Laughably Agenda-Driven, Mathematically Illiterate Junk-Science-Hoax-Pseudo-Study — Saying That It’s Racist For Cops To Stop Black Drivers — Even If They Have Illegal Guns In The Car
Could you tell us how you really feel?