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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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Typical government rats. Give ’em taxpayer dollars for one purpose, and they unilaterally spend it on something other than its intended purpose instead of handing it back. Another vast vote-buying scheme happening in plain sight, as the leftists do not fear the incompetent Biden DOJ.
Remember, the finances are so much better. Right Moody’s?
And so is higher Chicagoland prices. Who’d a thunk it?