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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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Yes, and if their household income is low enough, let’s have them not pay PTs – sort of an incentive not to work. We’re glad to keep subsidizing.
The government creates a problem and then rides in to fix it. What a bunch of clowns.
Bridget Gainers plan in today’s ST is a $15 mil fund from late fees for CC for emergency prop tax relief….what a complete stepin fetchit/ keep um down on the farm joke!(https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2024/09/18/cook-county-commissioner-bridget-gainer-property-tax-relief-fund-struggling-homeowners-proposal)
Just another government funded program