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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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Hopefully all the ‘birth tourism’ citizenships handed out during the Biden years get remanded, along with all the anchor babies. The abuse needs to end ASAP.
They won’t. While I agree that we should not have birth right citizenship, the constitutions words say otherwise. I don’t see SCOTUS changing this. Also, even if they did, existing citizens won’t have the citizenship taken away. I don’t even think Trump proposed this in his EO.
A Hard Ass Literalist who’d bankrupt a city to keep his pension would deport the parents and keep the baby.
Guttman needs to sic his boy Kwame on this so he can again be soundly defeated by real attorneys.
Keep talking Putz. The rest of us will watch the federal funds disappear
Yep. Planned Abortion, er, Parenthood, Medicade/ Medicare for illegal immigrants, LGTQ garbage funded and taught in schools, PBS’s tax funded indoctrination,circumcisions in Pakistan, transgender awareness in Serbia, etc. soon to be bid a not too fond and long overdue goodbye.