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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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There is no election integrity, unless voting happens in person with photo ID on election day, exceptions only for deployed military.
There is no election integrity. Sec of state should notify the voters board when people move to stop people from voting twice or more. Funeral homes should notify the board of elections when people die. Dems don’t want this. Here we have dead people vote! Dems registering nursing home pts which is fine, but people with a diagnosis of dementia not excluded.
Stuff early, stuff often.