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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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This stated fact even the liberals can refute:
“While AR-15s and similar rifles are in common use for lawful purposes, there is one thing they very rarely are used for: violent crime,” they said, noting that statistics show that such rifles were used in less than 0.01% of all murders in the U.S. in the past 10 years.
More people are killed in Chicago every month then killed in a year with a AR type rifle in the whole US.
Pundit Steve Sailer says that there are two types of gun control. There is point of sale control and point of use control. He says that Democrats are stupidly going after point of sale gun control to stop the redneck rural hillbilly from buying his AR-15, when they should be going after point of use gun control, which is controlling the urban black or brown person from taking target practice at their neighbors. Like you pointed out, AR-15 is negligible – difficult to carry, hard to conceal. But handguns…The best method to target point of use is stop and frisk,… Read more »