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.
“If more people questioned their elected officials about where their money goes, government agencies might work harder to curb spending.”
For example, if you asked an Illinois government agency about its exorbitant salaries, benefits, and number of employees, it might work harder to reduce those costs. Uh-huh.
Does Maria have any other profound advice for us?
To CPS to not teach
That’s all you got, Ya Ya? Nothing about efficiency or anything like that, just “ read it and weep!”.
Illinoisans,
PPF is celebrating higher and higher property taxes!!
Remember,
Stay and Pay
Leave and Save!!
It’s a small price to pay to keep Democrats in charge in Illinois.