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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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meanwhile this clown has all his accounts offshore exempt from these tax hikes, why are people not protesting in the streets about this hypocrisy!
Because Trump occupies all the available space in their head with sugarplum fantasies (and yes, they are all fantasies) of ‘children in cages’, ‘tax cuts for the rich’ and ‘russia collusion’. Orange Man Bad. Fat Man Good.
My comment from similar articale—is jbs $5 million donation to fair tax initiative from his familys tax sheltered offshore trust funds?