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.
Everyone can see how this is working out.
Ray Hanania’s son, Richard, posts prolifically on his interesting twitter account. Centrist I guess would be the best way to describe but critical of everything. Worth a glance.
https://mobile.twitter.com/RichardHanania