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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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Pritzker has botched the vaccine distribution big time. Hopefully he will be held accountable. By voters.
Of course he won’t, this state “always votes blue, no matter who!”
The only way he’d be held accountable is a sex scandal, as we’ve seen in other states now, like NY. But that’s not likely to happen unless he’s trying to grope Ezike or Dirty Hair, which is pretty disgusting.