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The alternative city budget muscled through the City Council over Mayor Brandon Johnson’s objections required the city to make the full $260 million advance pension payment to stave off another costly reduction in Chicago’s bond rating. Late last week, the Johnson administration ignored that mandate and made a half-payment of $130 million.
With $162 billion more from taxpayers, couldn’t you deliver a few bond upgrades, too
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
Everybody needs a side hustle these days, and mine is Ukraine, where I am now.
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I dunno…maybe he has a boat payment due… Pinhead likely doesn’t even know it is happening.
Mayor Cliff Notes already pinched it and threw it at his pals in CTU and the rest was doled out to illegal immigrants in ‘his’ sanctuary city.
Check for the half in the CTU offshore account.
Typical lawless Democrats. A government of losers. Pathetic!
If he has it, that’s $260 million that hasn’t been stolen yet. Do you mooks really think he is going to let that go to pensions before all the leeches get their taste?
Perhaps Brandon thinks that the pension fund is like a water bill to be paid at his leisure.
The city doesn’t have the money. Chicago is broke, Illinois is broke. Highest taxes in the land and not the change of a nickel. Lots of rich public sector workers with gold plated pensions.
You can’t spend a contract right if the obligor is broke. The black screen at the end of the tunnel.