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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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But Pritzker wasn’t horrified by anti Semitic committed on IL college campuses in IL and did nothing to stop them.
Jumbo should be horrified with the tragedy in Australia. It is nice he has a reaction to something… Albeit an event on the other side of the planet. He should also be horrified with the tragedy that takes place every single week in Illinois and Chicago. Many times per year, in a single month, the same number of people are killed in Chicago. There are protests and violence committed against the Jewish community all the time in Chicago. Anything Jumbo? Nope. Hey Jumbo, there are citizens of this State being killed, robbed and hurt each and every weekend…is he horrified?… Read more »