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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 Autonomy Trust 2 is in Texas, sounds like a good plan, start by bringing all Texas generational-wealth-tax-evasion Trusts and their assets into the Illinois taxation umbrella.
Cook County Board should travel to Venezuela. Maybe CTU can recommend a good tour guide.
Cook County Democrats propose this crap because their base eats it up. It’s quite literally blue meat for the rabid Moloch worshipers.
Texas doesn’t want Illinois democrats in their state either!
Texas doesn’t need Illinois!
They sure like to throw red herrings out there to detract from the REAL problems in Chicago.
I sometimes wonder what life must be like for Progressives. I cannot fathom the amount of pure energy and hatred required to be constantly on the lookout and hunt for ANYONE who dares deviate from your worldview. Then, they write up relatively complicated legislation that has pretty much no effect on anyone anywhere and they splash it all out in a big PR tour. This activity is essentially meaningless, but I realize that it serves their mental illness — which is the need to exert some sort of control on the world that they see is “spiraling out of control.”… Read more »
Guess what Toni, I don’t think Texas will care that your employees are banned from traveling there. I totally get the policy. I have a similar one, I won’t take my family on vacation to a blue state. And when me and my buddies go on a trip the first rule of selecting a destination is it has to be a red state.
Dead black kids are of no concern to Cook County Democrats — doesn’t matter if they are killed by bullets or by Planned Parenthood baby-butchers
Asinine. Fix your own problems.
Cook County- What a joke!
All these children dying on the streets every day in Chicago and you are worried about what Texas is doing! Completely out of touch!