Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer
April 22, 2026
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Mark Konkol: "His administration treated Chicago as if it were two cities — one for the rich and powerful, another for the poor and forgotten. Chicagoans remember how often Emanuel bragged of attracting an always increasing number of tourists from around the world, while turning a blind eye to the exodus of Black families fleeing neighborhoods neglected by City Hall."
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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
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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.
Doc on Biden’s COVID Task Force Thinks Living Past Age 75 Is Morally Problematic – Joe Is 77 And as for Biden, hoo boy. Emanuel wrote that “the fact is that by 75, creativity, originality, and productivity are pretty much gone for the vast, vast majority of us. This brief comment was made by Rahm Emanuel’s brother who is slated to be one of the Covid task force experts, Dr Ezekiel Emanuel, was also one of the authors of the Affordable Care Act. The article where this quote came from is much longer and basically says that nobody should live… Read more »
So, let’s have a virus that kills old people.
And let’s not forget his cave-in to the Chicago Teachers Union which exacerbated the City’s current budget problems, Or how about his $500 million emergency property tax increase that was supposed to solve all of our pension problems. That $500 million is down the drain and the pension problem is way worse. Or how about the hundreds of millions of TIF funds that went to his buddies and starved the neighborhoods and the schools. He was a disaster of a mayor and only used the Fifth Floor as a holding tank for when Hillary won the Presidency so she could… Read more »
All the Emanuel brothers are bad for any place especially the US!!