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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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COVID did not create a need for food. People have needed food long before COVID. People get jobs to earn money to buy food. What created the long lines at this food giveaway was the illegal house arrest Dictator Jabba is forcing on Illinoisans that is destroying the economy
More and more cracks among Pritzker’s supporters.
Weird, this comment was intended for a different post, but got posted here. My bad.