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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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100,000 AR15 owners in Illinois (a guess, just a number for this posting). 1 idiot goes on a shooting spree so logically the 99,999 law abiding citizens should be punished and have their legally purchased, legally owned firearm taken from them. AR15 owners who have never committed a crime and never will accused and found guilty of something they never did or never will do.
“Shall Not Be Infringed Upon”. End of discussion
Instead of raising their messed up kids correctly, Illinois Democrats want to punish you for the carnage those kids create — by taking away the things that protect you from their monster offspring — police and guns.
Democrats: It’s too late. Look at the gun purchase stats from 2020/2021 and early 2022. IL leads the country in gun sales. YOU DEMOCRATS did this. You cannot disarm us. It’s politically impossible.