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.
Bring in the National Guard President Trump! Law abiding Illinois residents long for justice for criminals. Be it the street criminal or a legislative criminal. Illinois has plenty of both.
I’m getting tired of Jelly Belly’s one note samba. And the lyrics are monotonous
When all else fails , which lately is what happens to the Democrats, call Trump a nazi or other vile names .
Bloviating JB is starting to sound like a broken record. Want to shut him up? Ask him about lack of transparency, a balanced budget that isn’t, endless tax increases/ new taxes, toilets, etc.
Pritzker knows better than to compare the Holocaust to Democrats losing political power.
He is desecrating the memory of Jews killed in the Holocaust.
That is a new personal low — even for him.
There will be more lows; he’s just getting his campaign ramped up.
Right on schedule. When all else fails yell ‘nazi’. It sure looks like JB’s preening, prancing, posing moment in the national spotlight and exposure of his part in Illinois perverted tyrannical gerrymandering is backfiring on him. Any publicity is good publicity, squeals JB, until the audience becomes aware of his part in this disgusting antidemocratic perversion.
Perhaps Trump can follow the IDF example of bulldozing down the homes of the criminals and starving the criminals to death.
Bring them in Mr. President. If you are law abiding citizen, there is nothing but up-side. It’s the FAFO crowd that will not like this much…
the fact that trump would ridicule someone else’s weight is the pot calling the kettle black, and calling pritzger a “gross incompetent guy” is mere projection. can’t wait to see the new south park episode next week!
People want to be able to walk in their communities without always worrying about being mugged. They’re funny that way.
Just ignore Pritzker, maybe he’ll go away.