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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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So if revenues are falling short, why not just increase the tax rate on the 60% of the merchants who haven’t left North Michigan Avenue. If they balk at the increased tax rate, the Democratic street thug caucus can break their plate glass windows. It’s the BJ way.
Things are getting uglier by the day for the Happy Warrior. Now the Fed is shutting off funding to sanctuary cities. His gigantic melon head is going to explode.