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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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Journalism is dead.
One statistic that I haven’t seen is how many people in the U.S. are killed with long guns as opposed to handguns and other means?
This obsession with ‘assault’ weapons is naive at best, disastrous at worst.
Stupid chickens.
I am no gun expert, but isn’t it likely that a mass murder, if they were prevented from getting an assault rifle, would just use a semiautomatic handgun or two instead, and have just about the same effect. Yes, handguns are less accurate and less powerful, but still extremely powerful and far easier to conceal. The Highland Park killer, for example, could have just thrown a couple handguns and magazines in his backpack and would have actually had a better chance to going to a rooftop than he had with a rifle, no?
Of course you’re correct Mark. Then again the people that want these types of laws will also agree with you down the road and then go after those weapons. This is merely just one step of many more to come if they have their way.
Slippery slope to losing a fundamental right.
This is a 50 bullet drum magazine for a standard Glock handgun. It costs $70. It shoots more bullets faster than any AR or ‘assault’ rifle. The gangbangers put a $20 illegal clip on it to make it full auto.
This column gets my vote for the dumbest yet on the new gun law.
I’ll second your vote.
Interesting that the author refers repeated to ‘guns’ and not ‘assault weapons.’
Whomever authored the piece fails to distinguish the difference and I fully expect this individual would support disarming all law-abiding citizens.
The brutal truth is that the problem is criminals, not responsible gun owners. Criminals don’t care a fig about gun laws … especially in the Foxx/Evans Cook County.
This and other laws of this type won’t prevent mass killings – that’s a mental health issue.
The Board says “No one can go [into public] without fearing they suddenly will be targeted by a slaughterer wielding deadly weapons.”
This perfectly encapsulates the mentally ill mindset of a progressive journalist. This is an irrational fear.
Using Chicago as an example with available statistics for the last 12 yrs from HEYJACKASS.COM it is quite, quite apparent what the cause of gun violence is. POC are responsible. The usual number is about 95% of all shootings and homicides are because of POC. The remaining 5% is pointed at ALL other races combined. Examine the numbers and it will reveal that 2-3% of that ALL others were shot or killed by, POC. In 2021 there were 1151 murders reported in the entire state of Illinois. Over 800 were reported in Chicago. Throw in Rockford, East St Louis, Freeport,… Read more »