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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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People who think it is a good idea to put totally unreasonable restrictions on law enforcement never think beyond the laws and regulations they promote. There are dead bodies and wrecked businesses all over chiraq and evanston because of their efforts to defund/restricte law enforcement. You have to also think of the unintended consequences of feel good anti law enforcement actions.consequences of any legal restrictions. Those are real dead bodies piling up, not some abstract intellectual exercise.
Far Left Evanston teaches its school kids lessons drawn up by Black Lives Matter rioters/looters/arsonists. That is kind of insanity makes it easy for cops to move on to a place where common sense still exists.