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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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Chicago has multiple trimester options … lead over here … lead over there … no need to rush into a decision the neighborhood can help you out later
The officials behind this attempt have been spending too much time visiting the Ganja dispensary. They are hallucinating!
278 children shot this year in Chicago, Schools suck, crime out of control, 2nd highest taxes in country! Whats not to love about Chicago! LOL
We have friends in Texas that moved from the Chicagoland area who said Texas is hot but they would never move back.
Come to Illinois where murder is legal at any age. Crains? If you’re a gun person, Chicago is great! Big game? The best, you can hunt down and shoot people! All risk free! Crains?
Our business environment,, taxes and weather sucks but we allow late term abortions for 16 year olds!
And they put the ad in a newspaper! A newspaper! Who in their right mind thought this would be a good idea?
Double post, but I saw an article on the Trib home page about this again. Think about how gruesome and tone deaf this is. It’s a full page ad that says “can’t murder your unborn child in Texax, come to Illinois!” Gruesome really, disgusting. What sick person would actually move to Illinois because of this?
The naivete that the employees of these Texas companies want to move north to Chicago. You might be able to get them to Charlotte. But Chicago?! lol
Good luck with this. As a former Texas resident who stays in contact with people there, I can attest that Chicago is everything they don’t want to become. They would be happy to see anybody leave who thinks IL is a place to go. Yes, there are plenty there angry about the state’s new abortion law, but it’s likely to be struck down eventually.
No it won’t ! The law is perfectly reasonable and it does not stop a woman from getting an abortion! If you have unprotected sex and you know what time it is in your cycle, you get yourself checked out and if need be you can have your abortion. Once a heart beat is detected then all things change!