Column: Politicians play ‘truth-speak’ but don’t speak truth – Champaign News-Gazette*

Jim Dey: "When politicians use a rhetorical curtain to disguise what they’re doing, it’s important the curtain be pulled back...The coronavirus was just a gleam in Pritzker’s eye when the 1977 bill passed. But while motivated solely by moral opposition to abortion, the law did not limit its protections solely to abortion."

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Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer: Chicago pension buyout plan mostly shifts debt rather than eliminating it, property tax surge doubles inflation over three decades

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.

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