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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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Wow, keeping those bars open and going ahead with primary I guess was not the smartest move. Would like to know the age of all these recent cases
Governor Pritzker it is your JOB as governor of Illinois to have Illinois ready for a pandemic. Stop blaming past administrations for your downfall, stop pointing the finger at Washington, remember you are not the only governor in the United States that needs equipment. Apparently you did not do your job when you took office, all you we’re concerned with was raising taxes, marijuana, and 54 billion in funding for who knows were it’s gonna end up now. You say this is not a time for politics, but yet you keep the pot store’s open and now are contemplating home… Read more »
And infanticide/killing babies. He was all about that a few months ago. He was literally only a few days away from his next pet project: banning plastic and paper bags. Suddenly, single-use plastic bags are the most sanitary option. Oooooops! Progs on the wrong side of this issue.
End of the week?!?! Doesn’t this bungling fool realize people are dying while he fiddles and dithers? Or doesn’t he care?
I know, months and months to prepare, and instead, he whines the federal government isn’t getting him masks fast enough. PEOPLE ARE DYING JB, STOP EATING CAKE!