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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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This provision of the new law is typical Leftist insanity. Do Leftist think that on two day a week , criminals will no longer be criminals?
Why even bother arresting criminals? Just let them run wild and let the citizens defend themselves. In Chicago/Cook County the innocents will be overwhelmed, in the rural and more conservative parts of the state criminals would be dropped like dead flies.
This country has been more worried about protecting the rights of felons instead of law-abiding citizens for decades now. We used to be a nation of laws, now we are a nation of lawlessness. The fact that this type of legislation got passed is what drives the proliferation of gun sales among those who would never thought of owning a firearm years ago. You better protect yourself, because your government is too busy taking care of criminals.
Electronic cuffs should be set to deliver 10,000 volts if the thug leaves their house