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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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The writer is a professor of computer science, with perhaps little understanding of practical government or geography. Suppose we had an “objective” machine-drawn map that simply maximized compactness. If 59% of voters are dems, wouldn’t you expect dems to dominate nearly all the districts? imho the only fair solution is to abolish districts. Every voter gets 17 votes. They can cast all 17 for one candidate, or distribute them to several, even one vote to each of 17 candidates. This gives political minorities a good chance to get representation, regardless of where in the State they vote. At the State… Read more »
illi-mandering sounds better. I will also accept gerry-madigering .
This is what most states are doing now.