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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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Equity over equality is the JB Pritzker way.
The only cure for any problem is more money from us. A Democrat told me that!
Don’t know how Pritzker can “mandate” health care that guarantees good health. Hmm. Grossly obese governor, likely diabetic with other comorbidities, wants to “legislate against systemic racism in healthcare which causes inequities that cause poor health in low-income communities of color”??? People have choice. Government can’t nanny-state people into good habits and prudent life choices. Look at our wealthy governor, who grew-up in a household able to afford and access the “best of best of best” of health care, food, education, housing et al. And yet JB Pritzker is obese. He needs to acknowledge his own personal choices here, to… Read more »
Remember when the soda tax was marketed as a health issue, then we found out SNAP purchases were exempt from the soda tax, thereby eliminating the unhealthiest group the tax was purported to help?
Eat healthy? Simply limit items that can be purchased with food stamps might make a good start.
Pritzker can’t do that, he’s pandering to the permanent victim class.
But yet nobody takes this man to court and files a lawsuit
Perhaps those communities should stop having giant house parties, before the tax payers start handing them hundreds of Millions of dollars in free healthcare.
Start with JB’s serving at the dinner table.
Here’s the Governor’s news release for SB 1510 / PA 101-0655.
“Gov. Pritzker Signs Community-Driven, Equity-Focused Healthcare and Hospital Transformation Bill.
New Law to Invest $150 Million in Initiatives to Reduce Health Disparities in Illinois’ Most Distressed Communities.
Friday, March 12, 2021 – Office of the Governor
https://www2.illinois.gov/Pages/news-item.aspx?ReleaseID=22930
https://www2.illinois.gov/news
Are black and brown communities disproportionately obese which is labeled an inequity so the solution is to re-educate how to eat healthy (they already teach that in the public schools).
“It’s expected to be used to set up and pay for programs that might, for example, help educate people about the importance of healthy eating in communities struggling with obesity.”
Anyways this is Senate Bill 1510 (SB 1510) which was signed into law as Public Act 101-0655 (PA 101-0655) by Governor Pritzker on March 12, 2021.
Yet JB is right there among them and he’s eaten a billion shares of ‘equity’.
The permanent victim class must change their lifestyle of flaming hot Cheetos, grape pop, fast food, alcohol and drug use, no exercise, and a high fat no vegetables diet. I’m so sick of hearing about disparity, equality and equity. It’s just pandering for votes by the dummycrat party.
JB is really over compensating on this stuff already. Where was he the first 53 years of his life?
Prediction: Bill aimed at reducing health disparities will not achieve the desired result. I may be going out on a limb here, but I’ll take my chances.
I think you are correct, but it will provide jobs with fat paychecks for the friends and family club.