Audio: Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon says Chicago pension buyout plan mostly shifts debt rather than eliminating it, property tax surge doubles inflation over three decades – Chicago’s Morning Answer
April 3, 2026
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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.
Illinois lost another 54,000 tax filers and dependents, net, according to the IRS. Since 2000, fleeing taxpayers have taken $94 billion of annual adjusted gross income with them.
Pritzker sounds exactly like Joseph Goebbels with his authoritarian rants. Zero integrity.
He looks a little pastier than usual. Trump is taking a toll on him.
It’s hard kicking that can down the road when the can keeps getting bigger and bigger. He already broke his leg once, this can kicking is too much exertion. He hopes to leave it all behind for the comfort of the Oval Office.
1. Not one word about Gotion
2. Trump had to be blamed, figured.
3. Liar liar your pants are on fire 🔥 Pritzker
4. Same old yearly bull another history lesson with no substance.
So cute, JBs new name for us — “backseat bellyachers”!!……did his speech writers come up with that one?
But the “backseat” fits with what Springfield machine thinks of us taxpayer chumps.
Maybe that is why they have the person signing his speech. All the elected leaders in this state are deaf. They certainly don’t hear the complaints of taxpayers.
That was the charitable part. You are Nazis, Pritzker clearly said.
Calling someone a Nazi is the worst thing you can call someone in polite society. Nazi pretty much sums up all the -isms in one word: racism, fascism, white supremacy, etc. And what do we do to Nazis? We kill Nazis. Our grandfathers killed Nazis in WW2. He calls us Nazis because he is suggesting, not so subtly, stochastic terrorism against Trump supporters, defined by Wikipedia as ” .. a form of political violence instigated by hostile public rhetoric directed at a group or an individual. Unlike incitement to terrorism, stochastic terrorism is accomplished with indirect, vague or coded language,… Read more »
So let me understand if I’m a Trump supporter Pritzker says I’m (we) are Nazis, and if so I do not like being slandered or defamed. Correct me if I’m wrong please .
He was clearly talking about all Trump supporters, and he has done that before, calling them fascists. That’s now 54% of America, latest polls say.
On NBC 5 at 430pm today they featured Pritzker’s comment about Nazis and Trump surprised local media is reporting this. I do feel Pritzker is going to suffer severe backlash for this, everyone in Illinois and Washington especially President Trump should call for his immediate resignation. Going to be interesting to see how Dan Proft reacts to this on his radio show tomorrow morning, thanks for your feedback Mark.
Amanda Vinicky had an interesting post on Twitter about a Jewish person who stopped Pritzker and said he should apologize for the Nazi comments. But she deleted that, and her story now on WTTW on the speech says nothing about the Nazi stuff. They whitewashed the story.
The worthless, corrupt Chicago Media strikes again.
Absolutely disgusting what Pritzker said, being of Jewish decent and claiming how much he knows about the atrocities of the holocaust how just how can he compare President Trump and Washington as modern day Nazis and people who’ve voted for Trump you are absolutely disgusting Pritzker you owe the entire country a national apology along with your resignation.
What a surprise.
She subsequently posted a piece about the Nazi stuff, which we have linked to.
Therefore 92 of 102 Illinois counties are Nazi strongholds since they did not majority vote for fat boy. Sound familiar? Deplorable ala Shrillary Klinton. The usual democrat politician comment throwing hate at at least 50% of the population. Get this perfectly clear, if you do not support or vote for democrats they hate you.
Yeah, It’s those ‘backseat nazis’ you really got to look out for!
Watching 12 hours of ‘Europa: The Last Battle’ is the cure for post war Nazism.
Richie’s running a contest to vote on your favorite lame JB put down zinger for us chumbalone taxpayers over at CF (https://capitolfax.com/2025/02/19/question-of-the-day-3718/)