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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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Guessing once the employee contribution rate is lowered for this retiree benefit, it can never be raised due to the diminishment and impairment clause. Great job!
He is intentionally bankrupting it, Obama-Care needs their money.
Oh well, it will be Union Employees that wind up without health insurance and they are the idiots that voted him in to begin with.
C’est la vie!!
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