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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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That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.
in other words, do not comply with tyrants who take away your constitutional rights.
No way I am registering my “assault weapons”. especially since I have to fill out several forms, plus a FOID card, to purchase a firearm. therefore, Prickster already knows who owns every LEGAL gun in this state.
There’s nothing wrong with that. Most people didn’t register. The law is unconstitutional for sure, but there’s a small number of people who have *a lot* to lose if they got caught with an unregistered ‘assault’ weapon, so they registered anyways. The risk of a prominent lawyer, or judge, or high profile celebrity, or doctor, risking losing everything over a stupid registration requirement isn’t worth the risk to them. There’s nothing wrong with following the law and your non-compliance isn’t helping or hurting situation. This is ultimately for the Supreme Court, or the people of IL to elect new reps,… Read more »
Only 29,357 FOID card holders, out of 2,400,000, registered their banned guns, ammo or accessories.
Congrats JB, you officially turned 2,370,643 of your state’s citizens into criminals overnight because they possess 16 or 17 round magazines, or an AR-15, or some other vaguely described but prohibited accessory.
This was goal, deplorable.
Those 29,357 people just gave legitimacy to this unconstitutional decree from King Prickster.
The only way to win is to not play the game. How can 2.3 million residents be charged with crimes?
That’s a very, very wrong way of looking at this. Most of those 29,357 people who registered are probably lawyers or other prominent professionals or prominent people, probably some cook or lake county former law enforcement. I only know a couple of lawyers with guns and both of them told me they registered their guns; because they weren’t going to risk losing their law licenses over registering a stupid gun with the law, for a law that will likely be overturned by the Supreme Court in a few years anyways. Everyone of them likely struggled with the decision to register,… Read more »