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If this bill passes, say goodbye to local control over all Illinois parks and expect to see open drug and alcohol use, needles, no sanitation and fire hazards, but no ordinary park users.
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.
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The longer BJ and subsequent Chicago mayors ignore spending reductions by reducing bloat, the more pushback there will be over increased tax and fee proposals.
Here’s an article from the Tribune on Fox news about CTU.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/chicago-tribune-rips-outlandish-teachers-020006899.html
Chicago elites have been supporting the democrats in Chicago for decades. The person in the article is in the solar and cannabis industries. I’m sure businesses he got into because of his democratic clout, especially with the weed license. So now they got a true socialist and they don’t like it because the dog won’t hunt. They need to stay in the pig stye they helped create. But they won’t go down with the ship. They’ll leave like everyone else with money and let the poor dumb morons they’ve conned into believing the dems are their friends drown.