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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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Rational people are tired of letting criminals go free and the demonizing of law abiding citizens while politicians grandstand as they attempt to curtail our rights.
Duckworth puts nonsensical Leftist ideology over the Constitution.
Tammy Duckworth is a hero and a fool. Just like John McCain.
Correct. She is a bona fide American military hero. And a totally worthless legislator and senator. Can anyone identify one single thing she has accomplished in all of her time in the Senate? Nope, not a single thing. A total waste of a valuable Senate seat.
Do you think she understands that when she says stupid things like this more guns get sold?
Nope.