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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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You can mandate them if you wish, but I will never ever take a shot, so I will never need one.
Requiring a vaccine passport would disproportionately harm minorities, using the logic that requiring an ID to vote disproportionately harms minorities.
If it’s so hard to bring an ID to vote, surely it would be just as difficult to bring a passport to do whatever.
It should be clear by now Dems do not care about how badly minorities are harmed. Division is all that matters.