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Mark joined Steve Cochran to discuss why Gov. Pritzker deserves no credit for Illinois’ recent credit rating upgrades or for paying down bills. It was the near-$200 billion federal bailout that made those things possible, not Pritzker’s administration.
Read the related piece from Wirepoints: Reality check: Even $200 billion in federal bailouts hasn’t rescued Illinois from the bottom of the barrel
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If this bill passes, say goodbye to local control over all Illinois parks and expect to see open drug and alcohol use, needles, no sanitation and fire hazards, but no ordinary park users.
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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.
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Paying the bills and giving me a $600 tax rebate. Best Gov Illinois. Vote for Pritzker. Send the farmer back to the fields.