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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 should cut ties with people like Lopez and leave businesses like Walgreens alone!
Typical Democrat reasoning. Democrats are upset that Walgreens is simply following local laws. Instead Democrats want Walgreens to violate all laws that Democrats don’t like. And yet Democrats expect voters to trust them with elections and screech that anyone questioning widespread Electin Fraud is a crackpot?
Democrats would be pleased to also drive Walgreens and their taxpaying employees out of the state. No problem – real estate taxes can always be raised to offset any revenue losses.
So the democrats in Illinois want Walgreens to violate state laws in states that Illinois disagrees with. Typical.
Communism the death cult in action. They believe that no one should get any medicine at all because a handful of people can’t get abortion pills.
I’m sorry grandma, you can’t get your insulin today, because Chicago’s communists believe that the abortion pill is more important than your life. Sorry little child needing life saving medicine, you’re not important enough to save, because Walgreens made a legal liability decision to stop distributing a potentially dangerous abortion pill.